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pecan

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Registered: 2007-04-06

Posts: 93

E16 vs. E17

I'm still using E16 mainly because its what I'm use to. I only use it for two reasons, its moderately responsive and its easy to switch screens with the mouse. I was wondering how E17 compares, what are the advantages and how fast is it compared to E16? Any new interesting features?

kozaki

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From: London >. < Paris

Registered: 2005-06-13

Posts: 671

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Re: E16 vs. E17

Hi pecan,

I've been using enlightenment DR17 on my main PC with Arch from 2005 to last January (1) and on my laptop 'till now.
Thanks to Fouiny's, mOLOk & reverie's very nice packaging effort I've barely encountered any issue with e17-cvs

It's really beautiful, themable, fast, light (<25 MB RAM used after boot on my laptop ), have lots of new features while most of those available on e16 are available in some way.

My suggestion would be you add takhis repo and give it a try a few days at least.

(1) had to shift to another distro because of issue with X ; nothing related to WM

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kel_p

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From: De Kwakel

Registered: 2007-05-10

Posts: 65

Re: E16 vs. E17

E17 for me is the best userexperience a WM can offer, aesthetically speeking anyway..

Agree with Kozaki.. just try it, it seems stable enough at the moment.