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[–] krimson@feddit.nl 41 points 4 months ago (7 children)

Enlightenment was such a cool window manager. Shame the development pace was (and still is) slow and it never really took off.

[–] agressivelyPassive@feddit.de 12 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Is there even someone left?

I only tried it around 2008 or so and it was extremely slow paced back then while looking like the interface from a sci-fi movie.

[–] krimson@feddit.nl 7 points 4 months ago

There are still some people doing commits but I think the original devs have moved on.

[–] leopold@lemmy.kde.social 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

it's definitely progressed a lot since 2008, but the last couple of years have been extremely slow

[–] muhyb@programming.dev 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

You don't update the perfection

[–] leopold@lemmy.kde.social 2 points 4 months ago

having support for the newer wayland protocols in the wayland session wouldn't hurt

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