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[troy]

On Sun, Jul 25, 2004 at 01:33:01PM -0700, Robert Hayes wrote:
> I notice no one has mentioned enlightenment in this discussion of
> gui's.  I used black/fluxbox for a while, the WM for a while more, but
> have been on enlightenment for more than a year now. I run a mix of
> KDE and gnome apps, and a number of terminal windows (RXVT mostly) and
> of course GKrellm is open 24/7 as my launch point.
> 
> Anyone else using enlightenment, and can you think of any of the good
> points I'm coming up blank on?

I'm surprised Kyle hasn't chimed in yet -- he's a total Enlightenment
whore.  I love Kyle's homage to the Matrix: <http://greenfly.org>

Enlightenment was the first window manager that I ever extensively used
and I liked it a bunch.  I use Gnome/Sawfish now, partially because my
girlfriend hops on my computer from time to time and enlightenment is
too much for her ;-)

A couple of things that I like about it (enlightenment):

Highly customizable and can be made to be absolutely gorgeous.  I loved
E's pager.  E also starts up a whole hell of a lot quicker than Gnome or
KDE.  Did I mention that it's gorgeous?

Speaking of customizability, I really dig Sawfish.  Gnome is often
bundled with Metacity, but I think Metacity just plain blows.
Repository of Sawfish goodies:
<http://www.sics.se/~lofgren/sawmill/>  Sawmill == Sawfish

It's interesting that you use GKrellm as your launcher.  One of the
reasons that I like installfests is that I can wander around and see how
other people configure their desktops, and how they work.  (They just
think I'm nosy, but I don't care *what* they're working on, just how
they're doing it :)

-troy