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Enlightenment
Original author(s)Carsten Haitzler
Developer(s)Enlightenment development team
Initial release1997; 27 years ago (1997)
Stable release
0.26.0[1] Edit this on Wikidata / 23 December 2023
Repository
Written inC (EFL)
Operating systemUnix-like
Type
LicenseBSD-2-Clause[2]
Websitewww.enlightenment.org

Enlightenment, also known simply as E, is a compositing window manager for the X Window System. Since version 20, Enlightenment is also a Wayland compositor.[3] Enlightenment developers have referred to it as "the original eye-candy window manager."[4]

Enlightenment includes functions to provide a graphical shell and can be used in conjunction with programs written for GNOME or KDE. When used together with the Enlightenment Foundation Libraries (EFL), Enlightenment can refer to an entire desktop environment.[5]

History

The first version of Enlightenment was released by Rasterman (Carsten Haitzler) in 1997.[6]

Version 0.17, also referred to as E17, was in development for 12 years starting in December 2000[7] until 21 December 2012 when it was officially released as stable.[8] During the development period it was also referred to as DR17 (Development Release 17). It is a complete rewrite on DR16 and was designed to be a full-fledged desktop shell, based on the new Enlightenment Foundation Libraries (EFL).

E16 itself is still in active development that runs independently of E17, reaching the 1.0 milestone in 2009 (1.0.27 as of 2023).[9]

Bodhi Linux was built around the Enlightenment 17 desktop, but forked it to create the Moksha desktop. Elive Linux also used a fork of E17 as its main desktop environment until 2019, when the 3.7 series was released.

The current version is E25.[10]

Release history

Important releases
Version Code name Release date Notes
pre-alpha Enlightenment Alpha1 October 1996[11]
0.13.2 DR13 18 January 1998[12]
0.14.0 DR14 18 July 1998[13][14][15]
0.15.0 DR15 12 March 1999[16]
0.16 DR16 27 October 1999[17] Still maintained as of 2022. Preferred by many people, especially as a "retro" desktop.[18]
0.17 DR17 21 December 2012[19] Major rewrite version. Was forked to create the Moksha desktop.
0.18 DR18 22 December 2013[20]
0.19 DR19 15 September 2014[21]
0.20 DR20 1 December 2015[22]
0.21 DR21 1 June 2016[23]
0.22 DR22 22 November 2017[24]
0.23 DR 0.23 24 August 2019[25]
0.24 DR 0.24 17 May 2020[26]
0.25 DR 0.25 16 December 2021[27][28] Current release.

Legacy sources Archived 29 October 2020 at the Wayback Machine

Developers

Principal
  • Carsten "Rasterman" Haitzler: lead developer
  • Kim "kwo" Woelders: E16 maintainer
  • Hisham "CodeWarrior" Mardam Bey
  • Christopher "devilhorns" Michael
  • Mike "zmike" Blumenkrantz
Inactive
  • Geoff "Mandrake" Harrison

See also

References

  1. ^ "Enlightenment 0.26.0 Release". 23 December 2023. Retrieved 27 February 2024.
  2. ^ "COPYING - core/enlightenment.git".
  3. ^ "Enlightenment DR 0.20.0 Release". Enlightenment.org. Archived from the original on 21 June 2018. Retrieved 8 March 2016.
  4. ^ Keith Packard, Deron Johnson (3 July 2007). "Composite Extension".
  5. ^ "Portal:Enlightenment". en.opensuse.org. 2012-12-21. Archived from the original on 2018-02-12. Retrieved 2014-06-17.
  6. ^ "Enlightenment DR16". Enlightenment.
  7. ^ Geisler, Martin (9 December 2000). "E17 has been committed to CVS". Martin Geisler Online.
  8. ^ Blumenkrantz, Mike. "E17 Release: ZERO". Enlightenment.org. Retrieved 22 December 2012.
  9. ^ "Enlightenment E16". Retrieved 18 February 2018.
  10. ^ "News". www.enlightenment.org. Retrieved 27 December 2021.
  11. ^ "enlightenment-1.0alpha-1.i386.rpm". CDrom Archive.
  12. ^ "New E Already Released". Slashdot News.
  13. ^ "Enlightenment 0.14 release". Slashdot.
  14. ^ ""E news"". Archived from the original on 28 April 1999. Retrieved 19 May 2020.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)
  15. ^ "Official Word on Enlightenment DR14". Slashdot.
  16. ^ "Enlightenment 0.15". Slashdot.
  17. ^ ""E news"". Archived from the original on 4 March 2000. Retrieved 19 May 2020.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)
  18. ^ "Enlightenment E16". www.enlightenment.org. Retrieved 5 April 2021.
  19. ^ "After 12 years of Development, E17 Is Out". Slashdot.
  20. ^ "Enlightenment DR 0.18: Improved Compositing, Wayland Support". slashdot.
  21. ^ "v0.19.0". git release.
  22. ^ "Enlightenment E20 Released With Full Wayland Support". slashdot.
  23. ^ "v0.21.0". git release.
  24. ^ "v0.22.0". git release.
  25. ^ "v0.23.0". git release.
  26. ^ "v0.24.0". git release.
  27. ^ "Enlightenment 0.25.0 Release". 16 December 2021. Retrieved 27 December 2021.
  28. ^ "v0.25.0". git release.

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Enlightenment (software).
Wikibooks has a book on the topic of: The Unofficial Enlightenment User's Manual
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