[ANSWERED] E17 stability?

[Gagarin Gambit]

About a month ago I installed PCLinuxOS Enlightenment in an old laptop. While I'm delighted with Enlightenment, updates often reset all the settings; I've seen this happen twice in one month (the first there was a warning by Texstar). Of course reconfiguring everything is very troublesome. So I was wondering:

1. Is this because E17 is under development, so that's to be expected and PCLOS can't do anything about it? If that's the case, can anyone estimate how long is going to take E17 to become stable?
2. Is it possible to hold back all the Enlightenment updates in order to keep it stable, or is this likely to cause other issues, as if it was selective updating?

BTW, I have to admit I'm absolutely ecstatic with Enlightenment, to the point I'm thinking of using it as the window manager in my main machine. It's highly configurable, beautiful and lightning fast at the same time. I've never seen a computer working so fast, and that's an ancient laptop with an 1.8GHz processor with 512 RAM, but it boots within 40 seconds and firefox launches within 3, wow!

[Agust]

Well Gagarin , e17 is development , for many years , stable? depends to who uses Enlightenment .
I use E17 for more than five years, simply because I like and have what you really need.
E17 actually has a very noticeable delay in March was due to have launched the first Alpha.
E17PCLinuxOS Today is one of the best versions of E17 there, most beautiful and also very stable , sure.

I never thought that those repositories (E17) 0.93 Pclos into what is now a very, very good version of Enlightenment.
Logically you decide, but the work done here with e17 is simply fantastic.

More information here:
http://trac.enlightenment.org/e/wiki/ReleaseSchedule

E17PCLinuxOS Forever!!!!!!!
Greetings:
Agust

[Texstar]

About a month ago I installed PCLinuxOS Enlightenment in an old laptop. While I'm delighted with Enlightenment, updates often reset all the settings; I've seen this happen twice in one month (the first there was a warning by Texstar). Of course reconfiguring everything is very troublesome. So I was wondering:

1. Is this because E17 is under development, so that's to be expected and PCLOS can't do anything about it? If that's the case, can anyone estimate how long is going to take E17 to become stable?
2. Is it possible to hold back all the Enlightenment updates in order to keep it stable, or is this likely to cause other issues, as if it was selective updating?

BTW, I have to admit I'm absolutely ecstatic with Enlightenment, to the point I'm thinking of using it as the window manager in my main machine. It's highly configurable, beautiful and lightning fast at the same time. I've never seen a computer working so fast, and that's an ancient laptop with an 1.8GHz processor with 512 RAM, but it boots within 40 seconds and firefox launches within 3, wow!

E-17 is under heavy development as stated by the E-17 developers. I believe they will have a stable release out sometime this year. They recently reworked their core packages which required us dropping many of the old packages and importing the new packages which made the default configuration invalid requiring a new set of defaults. Some of the old options were depreciated but the new packages also brought in exciting and fun features. I just updated the packages today based on a snapshot they did a few days ago. I haven't experience any crashes but have found a couple of cosmetic bugs. Overall it is fun to keep up with their latest changes.

[Agust]

I just updated the packages today based on a snapshot they did a few days ago. I haven't experience any crashes but have found a couple of cosmetic bugs. Overall it is fun to keep up with their latest changes.

Updated , thank you Tex  .

Greetings:
Agust

[Texstar]

I just updated the packages today based on a snapshot they did a few days ago. I haven't experience any crashes but have found a couple of cosmetic bugs. Overall it is fun to keep up with their latest changes.

Updated , thank you Tex  .

Greetings:
Agust

I loves me some E-17. 

[Gagarin Gambit]

Thanks for your replies, now it's clear

But really, I find the PCLOS Enlightenment flavour very stable, and I don't mind for the few quirks (eg I can edit the favourites manually). My only problem is having to reconfigure everything every now and then. So, many thanks Texstar for bringing such a stable version of E17, and thanks Agust for the beutiful themes you've made for Enlightenment, I love them!

[NormanF]

They should make it into a desktop environment to rival LXDE. I think that's definitely the way to go. The only drawback of E-17 is that it can be too configurable. Cutting down on the clutter and menu choices would make it much more usable!

[Agust]

They should make it into a desktop environment to rival LXDE.

  e17 has no rival, is totally different....

Cutting down on the clutter and menu choices would make it much more usable!

  With only emodule you have everything you need.



Greetings:
Agust

[Gagarin Gambit]

They should make it into a desktop environment to rival LXDE. I think that's definitely the way to go. The only drawback of E-17 is that it can be too configurable. Cutting down on the clutter and menu choices would make it much more usable!

Actually I tried all the lightweight desktops environments before settling to Enlightenment. As a KDE user, LXDE is the first I tried and I was greatly disappointed. Why are KDE users are supposed to prefer LXDE? In my view, the strong point of KDE compared to Gnome is that it's highly configurable; LXDE is the least configurable environment! On the other hand, Enlightment stands out in this, especially for such a lightweight environment, and that's exactly the main reason I chose it.

Of course LXDE will get better in time, but so will Enlightenement

[smurfslover]

Same here Gagarin,
I hate gnome - why are the extra settings hidden in a mysterious looking windowsxp-register-lookalike?
I hate xfce - just the same as gnome but uses less resources
I hate lxde, i've seen faster, more efficient and better looking distro's with fluxbox, icewm or openbox

I love kde4: i'm a perfectionist who tweaks my destkop environment until it works excactly the way i want it to.
I love enlightenment: i'm a perfectionist who tweaks my destkop environment until it works excactly the way i want it to.

Only differenct: my current hardware is too old and kde4 is too heavy, so meanwhile i get enlightened and i like what i see, espcecially with agust themes. And to be honost the first stable release of kde4 (4.0.0) crashed many more on me than this frist e17 alpha release