Comments on: Ecomorph + E17 = Coolest Desktop Ever!

By: JOKER

JOKER — Tue, 02 Nov 2010 21:03:11 +0000

elive has a modified version of both ecomorph and e17
its not just ecomorph default in a distro

By: filasopher

filasopher — Sat, 09 Jan 2010 15:16:51 +0000

I agree with the “Dark Master!” Best to give credit where credit is due! While I have the Elive distro and its implementation of the ecomorph test build, it is important that people not get confused by this article and wrongly attribute the success of ecomorph to Elive.
The build is nice and works well. However, the credit still belongs to the person who spent the time to write the code.
I would suggest that both Thanatermesis, who (please don’t get me wrong) has done great work, and this webpage, respectfully credit the true author for the work that has been done. I would hate to see the few pioneering programmers we have in this world demoralized by plagiarized code, any more than they already are.

By: Upgrading Elive Compiz to latest Elive :Addz It Now

Upgrading Elive Compiz to latest Elive :Addz It Now — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 01:11:28 +0000

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By: TheDarkMaster

TheDarkMaster — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 12:44:17 +0000

Hallo everyone, I’m writing here this comment because there is a lot of confusion about this, and what’s reported is wrong. You write:

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It wasn’t until Elive developer Thanatermesis put in the necessary time to develop a special version of Ecomorph which consists of a special version of Compiz and a special version of E17 that are able to work together.
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You must be joking. ELive has nothing to do with Ecomorph, they did nothing about it. Ecomorph is a software by Hannes Janetzek and yes, it is an hack of Compiz, able of running compiz on Enlightenment. No user or developer from Elive took part in the development process. DaveMDS has made most of the config dialogs for E17.

Both Hannes and Dave are in the OpenGEU Team. Nothing related with Elive at all. While Ecomorph was still in development, the ELive team used the code to create Elive Compiz (and tha’s all OK, echo and compiz are opensource of course, so anyone can implement ecomorph in his distro), the OpenGEU Team, instead, waited for a release of the distro to be sure that Ecomorph had reached an appropriate development level and stability (and testing period) to be officially presented to the public, as a technological preview of course, Ecomorph is still in development.

That’s the real story. The fact that Elive included Ecomorph into the distro for first doesn’t mean that Ecomorph belongs to Elive at all! Please correct this information because OpenSOurce doesn’t mean that anyone can claim he is the author of the software, it just means that he can use and redistribute that software.

Beside that, I can suggest anyone complaining about the fact that Elive is Debian and not Ubuntu, that OpenGEU is out there for that exact reason. It is a good solution if you wish to have the beauty of Enlightenment and the power and flexibility of Ubuntu and its repos. Plus, OpenGEU is not only pure Enlightenment. In its standard configuration, OpenGEU is a very usable system, completing E17 with pieces of gnome. If you wish, though, thanks to our new default configurations tool, you can choose whether you prefer a Vanilla E or OpenGEU’s default custom config.

Of course, like kubuntu-desktop or xubuntu-desktop, opengeu-desktop can be added to any *Buntu derivate or version. You just need to add our repos. Of course, Ecomorph has been included in OpenGEU and you can use it and test it yourself without having to change your distro. OpenGEU will add an Enlightenment and an e17 Ecomorph session to your sessions list in GDM or KDM.

That said, the name Elive Compiz itself is not so nice IMHO… because Ecomorph is not mentioned in the name. It was very hard for Hannes to develop it. Please give credit to the real authors.

By: iv

iv — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 12:15:41 +0000

Thanks for this one… works like a charm. It’s not bulletproof stable but I’m running it for a couple of days and had but one segfault.

Btw, it’s gliding smoothly on nvidia 5200 LE. Just had to kill the burn effect, was a bit of a overkill :)

By: jack

jack — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 14:31:13 +0000

kpaso: not sure what you mean. this is a free operating system so there is no trial offer. you can download it for free and just use it. if by trial you mean use it before you install it, you can do that. it’s a live cd so you just run the operating system from the disk. if you like it then you can click the installer button on the panel to install it.

By: kpaso

kpaso — Sun, 22 Feb 2009 14:44:43 +0000

Interesting OS. Too bad you there is no trial offer for it. It is a new OS and sounds promising but I’d rather dwnload it with a trial offer tx

By: Peter

Peter — Sat, 21 Feb 2009 20:15:33 +0000

Thanks for showing the startscreen of the EVE-ONLINE client!

CCP 4tw! :)

By: Paul(us)

Paul(us) — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 22:38:41 +0000

Why is the girl, in the movie lifting her breast?
I am very impressed it looks beter than main Suse Linux. When the stability is the same as Suze linux, i switch over.

By: jack

jack — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 21:29:13 +0000

gokudomatic: this is a debian-based system so you can have apt-get still. and yes, you can have E17 on nearly any distro, but not this version of E17.

By: gokudomatic

gokudomatic — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 20:17:08 +0000

why? ubuntu is not just gnome. We’re talking here about graphical interface only. I won’t lose my apt-get and all my admin tools just for an eye-candy screen. Furthermore, E17 can run on Ubuntu, Fedora or whatever.

Not point to dump a distribution just for a matter of desktop manager.

By: Gyshall

Gyshall — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 19:27:56 +0000

I’ll officially be dumping Ubuntu if this gets stable enough… E17 is awesome.