[artix-general] Enlightenment?

[Carlo den Otter]

The past years Moksha provided a complete and absolutely stable desktop, 
while E failed at both. The new E release is far more complete than the 
previous one but I did not use it enough to be able to asses its stability.
Both E and Moksha were in the Omniverse repository but half a year ago 
Moksha was moved to the Galaxy one: 
https://wiki.artixlinux.org/Site/MokshaDesktopForArtix. Note that the 
Moksha/Bodhi devs are very active in improving, porting and creating 
modules and a new Drawer module might be released soon. There are many 
Bodhi/Moksha reviews online and all of them are full of praise about how 
lightweight, feature rich and beautiful this DE is.
The new E release requires a new EFL version which had not yet been 
tested and adopted for Moksha. I checked with one of the Bodhi devs (I'm 
often in contact with him and sometimes with the E dev) and he expected 
no problems. About a week ago Moksha added the new EFL to their 
repository and the same has now been done with EFL in our Galaxy repo.
The new Enlightenment package was already in the Omniverse repo and can 
be installed from there.

artist

On 2/1/25 10:44, aguador wrote:
> When the latest version of Enlightenment did not appear, I searched and
> see that it is no longer in the Artix repositories (from which I
> thought I installed it around a year ago). Instead I discovered that
> the Bodhi Linux fork Moksha has been added/taken its place. Questions:
>
>   * Is there a reason for the change?
>   * Will E also be packaged?
>   * If E will not be packaged, can it safely be imported from Arch, or
>     must it be built with Artix due to systemd dependencies?
>
> Note that I started using E in Manjaro (when it had a community of E
> users). I recall when Jeff Hoogland forked e17. While I sympathized a
> bit with his frustration, I felt him wrong for forking it. He could
> have continued to contribute to the later releases of E as the devs are
> quite open to contributions.
>
> E has continued to develop nicely and the latest releases of it and efl
> are better than ever. Much of the improvement is in efl, so I suppose
> Moksha benefits --assuming the devs there keep up with the theming
> changes (e.g., the latest cpufreq module required an update to the Flat
> Theme).
>
> Roy