I loved the default theme, the splash screen, all of the customization options, and how lightweight it was, but it’s missing some of the conveniences and polish of GNOME, KDE, or even LXQt and Xfce. Using an independent toolkit meant that none of my apps looked consistent, even after trying my best to find a theme that supported everything, and if I explored the settings beyond a surface level things started looking ancient and clunky.
Definitely underrated, and really impressive for how much they could pack into a desktop targeted at older PCs, but still missing quite a bit.
@ipacialsection
I think this description describes it very well. This is also how I remember it from back in the 2000’s when I tried to use it.It is indeed a lightweight DE.
How light is it when compared to xfce?
Lighter, I think. About on par with LXQt or Trinity (KDE 3).
I tried it once like 5 years ago (hope thats recent enough lol), when I heard that they have per monitor virtual desktops.
But I was missing so many KDE Plasma features that I loved, that I just had to go back. I don’t remember exactly which features though.
This brings back some memories from years ago. Enlightenment was fairly popular at some point and I think the author “Rasterman” was employed at RedHat. Some Linux distribution may even have had it as the default ?
Ive never stopped, just recently did my first nixos build with enlightenment. Had an old XPS with 4k screen works nicely. I like the reenlightened theme
@REdOG
Have you tested the Wayland implementation of Enlightenment?No, I guess Wayland is kind of on my to-do list…I just don’t need anything it offers. I’m grumpily enough implementing systemd already
@REdOG
I see. Well for me too, Xorg offered all the features I need and is still more well supported than Wayland in some areas, but on my system Wayland has so much better performance. On Xorg I was having mouse lags, on Wayland it’s just smooth.
