Well, I'll agree with that statement as long as we qualify it. Enlightenment has the best eye candy out of the box. But...
KDE and Gnome both have plenty of downloadable eye candy. Both of these window managers can be customized every which way from Sunday (whatever that means, kind of like what does "dead as a doorknob" really mean when you'd think "dead as a coffin nail" is a more appropriate allusion, but if the mighty Dickens felt unworthy to challenge tradition who am I to do it.). In fact even some of the "lighter" desktops can be loaded down with this eye-candy, were someone so inclined.
But out of the box, Enlightenment will do the most to tax your graphics card and chew up your RAM. Why anyone would want to intentionally bog down their Desktop to make it as slow as they possibly can is beyond me, but such is the nature of freedom.
For KDE eye candy: look here. www.kde-look.org
For Gnome you'll have to google on your own. I don't use it.
-----Original Message----- From: Frank Wiles
On Tue, 11 Jan 2005 23:41:12 -0600 jeffslists wrote:
Hi, I'm developing speech control jukeboxes and I'm using linux for one of the systems. I'm looking for the window manager
with the best
eye candy. As far as I know Enlightenment
has the best eye candy I have seen. This window manager is
a work of
art. Does anyone know of any window manager as pretty as Enlightenment?
Nope, Enlightenment pretty much has the monopoly on "eye candy".
On Wed, 12 Jan 2005, Brian Densmore wrote:
tradition who am I to do it.). In fact even some of the "lighter" desktops can be loaded down with this eye-candy, were someone so inclined.
But out of the box, Enlightenment will do the most to tax your graphics card and chew up your RAM. Why anyone would want to intentionally bog down their Desktop to make it as slow as they possibly can is beyond me, but such is the nature of freedom.
The reputation that Enlightenment eats up your resources is unfounded these days. It is left overs from the early days of enlightenment when it was a hack on top of fvwm. The current version of Enlightenment is slim and fast out of the box. Resource usage is also related to theme usage obviously.
I just got done doing another tour of the desktop manager/environment. I went back to using just Enlightenment again. The window managers for Gnome and KDE are cute and all, but I don't really want to use up the resources on my machines by running all those associated libraries and daemons.
I never really did want the capability of embedding my sound editing samples into my financial management program anyway ...
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Thanks to everyone for the input. I will probably stick with E, but I do want check out some flashy desktops at the next meeting if I can make it.
E definitely does not bog down a current computer (1GHz or above) today. It seems about 10 times lighter than KDE or Gnome. When I ran E six years ago it was very taxing. I wouldn't run E on the desktop today though because I need the features of KDE.
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