[artix-general] Enlightenment?

[Carlo den Otter]

I tested E24 iirc, and it crashed frequently. Good to hear it's working 
better now.

Moksha currently has 23 themes, all available in our galaxy repo and 
updated regularly. I have no knowledge of the specifics of these themes; 
for that you can check Bodhi's Moksha forum or contact TheWaiter directly.
Jeff's gh repo is still used but only for some modules mainly so you 
won't find theme updates there. Both Moksha devs each use their own one 
and one that is for Bodhi packages.

I moved EFL 1.28.0-22 to our stable repo earlier today but indeed it has 
an issue with E. The package is a compromise as it has to work for both 
E and Moksha - and I'd rather not split it of for one og them - but the 
1.28.0-3 version that was built an hour ago tests fine with E.

artist

On 2/1/25 17:31, RWR wrote:
> El sáb, 01-02-2025 a las 14:41 +0100, Carlo den Otter escribió:
>> 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.
> Curious, I've not seen any problems with stability in the last couple
> of releases.
>
>> 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.
>>
> I obviously have not kept up closely with Bodhi: the start was strange,
> it seemed to struggle after Hoogland left, and I definitely did not
>
>  From their website I see some old familiar themes...and that do not
> seem to have been updated in years. The release of the Flat Theme
> coincided with changes that rendered the old themes less than fully
> compatible. Simon Lees did modify the old B&W theme, released as
> Dimensions (and perhaps the ones he does for OpenSuse). However, at a
> minimum the new cpufreq module is incompatible with that theme --
> although he has promised to take a look at it.
>
>> 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.
> I saw that...and you should have seen a minor improvement with EFM. On
> one of my machines I still have a Win7 partition to which I need
> access...which is now possible with EFM!
>
>> The new Enlightenment package was already in the Omniverse repo and
>> can
>> be installed from there.
> Thanks artist, but I just updated e and efl...and the system hangs when
> logging into the updated E. Hmmmm...
>> 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