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#1 2009-10-08 22:03:47

beachcoder
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[Enlightenment E17] Problems with EFM after last Update [solved]

Hello Folks!

I'm having some very ugly problems with my Enlightenment E17 Desktop after the last full system upgrade. This problem has already been reported to the German Arch Linux community, but no response yet, but I can't figure out that nobody else troubles the same probs.

This is the following what I get when running pacman -Ss e17-svn

community/e-svn 42849-1 (e17-svn)
    Enlightenment window manager DR17 (aka e17)
community/e_dbus-svn 42682-1 (e17-libs-svn e17-svn)
    dbus abstraction layer for e17
community/ecore-svn 42854-1 (e17-libs-svn e17-svn)
    Ecore is an abstraction layer for e17
community/edje-svn 42794-1 (e17-libs-svn e17-svn)
    A graphical design and layout library based on Evas
community/eet-svn 42851-1 (e17-libs-svn e17-svn)
    A data storage and compression library
community/efreet-svn 42759-1 (e17-libs-svn e17-svn)
    freedesktop.org specifications for e17
community/eina-svn 42822-1 (e17-libs-svn e17-svn)
    E17 file chunk reading/writing library
community/embryo-svn 42739-1 (e17-libs-svn e17-svn)
    implementation of a C like scripting language for e17
community/evas-svn 42855-1 (e17-libs-svn e17-svn)
    A hardware-accelerated canvas API for X-Windows

The problems that occur to me are following: I'm using EFM as file manager. It's not the best one, but it fits into the E17 concept - simple, lightweight, fast - and thats what I like. But, after the latest update, when I click a folder on my desktop, EFM now comes up in a stupid very tiny window. The window is so small, that I need to resize it every time to see any content. Before the update, everything worked fine, the EFM windows came up as they should.

Another problem I'm having with some applications, e.g. the Okular-Viewer, is that I'm not able to size down the window - it is always in full screen, and there's no chance to move it up (even not on the desktop preview widget) to move it down. Okular is always 100% filling my screen (over the height, only), and I'm not able to size it down. In the previous version, I didn't got this problems.

My question is now: is there any way to install the previous Enlightenment E17 packages? They where much better that this one... or will another update come out soon??

Thanks in advance for any help, any help is appreciated!

beachcoder

Last edited by beachcoder (2009-10-09 09:04:21)

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#2 2009-10-09 06:00:52

pressh
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Registered: 2005-08-14
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Re: [Enlightenment E17] Problems with EFM after last Update [solved]

Have you tried starting with a clean config and the default theme, it helps sometimes after big code changes?

If that doesn't help...

beachcoder wrote:

My question is now: is there any way to install the previous Enlightenment E17 packages? They where much better that this one... or will another update come out soon??

If you find some mirror which keeps outdated packages that should not be a problem. Be sure to downgrade all of e17 packages (also some packages were deprecated and thus removed from the server during the last upgrade so you'd need to have those as well. You may still have those on your system though)

About a quick update, depends if Ican replicate it and if there is an easy fix. These things happen now and then with pre-alpha software when they do make major code changes.  I try to test every update locally before putting it live but I of course can't test every single feature.

Last edited by pressh (2009-10-09 06:03:31)

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#3 2009-10-09 07:59:53

pressh
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Re: [Enlightenment E17] Problems with EFM after last Update [solved]

I upgraded the core e17 packages (i686 only) (and forced a downgrade of evas-svn back to the previous one again as it broke the ability to change font hinting).  This fixes some minor things.

To remember the window size, go to the settings panel -> windows -> windows remembers
check both checkboxes in the top of the dialog and you should be good to go.

Last edited by pressh (2009-10-09 08:00:12)

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#4 2009-10-09 09:04:05

beachcoder
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Re: [Enlightenment E17] Problems with EFM after last Update [solved]

... and now it's working again! Fantastic!
Thanks a lot, especially for new updated packages! big_smile

Are you the Arch Linux package administrator for E17-related developments?

Best regards
beachcoder

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#5 2009-10-09 09:18:40

pressh
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Re: [Enlightenment E17] Problems with EFM after last Update [solved]

beachcoder wrote:

Are you the Arch Linux package administrator for E17-related developments?

yup

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