Enlightenment 0.17, the big, long awaited new release of the Enlightenment project, has been in the making for a long time now - since December 2000, to be precise. E17, as it became known, is a complete rewrite of Enlightenment, complete with a set of base libraries (the Enlightenment Foundation Libraries) turning it into a full-fledged desktop environment, complete with its own set of base libraries for building applications. Last November, main developer Carsten 'Rasterman' Haitzler stated that there were only two big to-do items left blocking the release of E17. We're now a few months ahead, so I contacted Rasterman to see what's what.
One of those two to-do items was a new theme. The theme E17 currently uses has served E17 well, but also looks a bit outdated, and a bit over the top; it was made to show off what E17 could do, and as such, it was full of bling-bling - and, according to Rasterman, it was "not incredibly popular" either. The new theme, currently in the works by Rasterman, aims to be a bit more conservative. There is a screenshot of a new theme on Rasterman's webserver, so I asked him if that was a work-in-progress for the new theme he mentioned.
That's real. I haven't had much time lately to work on it, but it's moving along. Gadgets are done now. I need to get started on widgets and other elements. A theme is no small task. Well, there are 3 items - theme, filemanager and wizard - major items. Lots of minor ones, too.
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