Playing with enlightenment….

So, as I mentioned that I am returning to my KDE, I did. But then, this new thing, Enlightenment kept me wanting to explore more, customize it and make it easy. So, I explored more…

yum install entangle e_utils

Then, I typed,
enlightenment_remote -module-load engage

And then, there was a new panel for me, which could have icons and supported the system tray. We can edit it using ‘entangle’. To delete an icon, just middle click it. To add a new icon, drag-n-drop from the list given on the left, simple isn’t it? No. To find out an icon for “konsole” from the list on the left, it took me 5 mins, and I am still looking for ‘kaffeine’, hehe.

There is a run command which apparently appeared after installing e_utils.
We can use e_util_eapp_edit to create our custom application links, but I don’t know how it works.

When I run gaim, engage, the panel, shows it in the system tray, so thats now something familiar, hehe. I am trying to get some new themes into it and trying to learn to create a shortcut for my applications. And for gods sake, where are my DESKTOP ICONS!!

References:
http://www.mepislovers.org/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?viewmode=flat&topic_id=8731&forum=9
http://www.neowin.net/forum/lofiversion/index.php/t343955.html
http://www.neowin.net/forum/lofiversion/index.php/t282467.html
http://www.enlightenment.org/

Enlightenment!!!!

Ok, today I got to know that there is some new desktop environment called enlightenment. So, I looked up the yum repository for it and added it. Then, just run yumex to install enlightenment and the dependencies.

Started off well, it was a new environment, not very fine in the functionality but it beats Windows Vista lookwise. So much configurable look, but hardly could I put my favorite icons on its panel(so called IBar). Its difficult to terminate programs and to run konsole, you need to run konqueror and then run konsole. There is no run command and kill is very buggy. Killed windows keep popping up and its overall difficult to handle it.

I am back into my KDE, but I’ll keep experimenting as an when I get more time.

Another useful package on www.pbone.net is gnome-yum-fedora-repositories-0.1-1.ta.28.fc4.i386.rpm. This installs all the required repositories which needed to be installed manually into the various .repo files. Quite handy for those lazy ones!