What is Enlightenment?

Enlightenment is not just a window manager for Linux/X11 and others, but also a whole suite of libraries to help you create beautiful user interfaces with much less work than doing it the old fashioned way and fighting with traditional toolkits, not to mention a traditional window manager. It covers uses from small mobile devices like phones all the way to powerful multi-core desktops (which are the primary development environment).

Mobile Devices Desktops, Laptops and Netbooks

Enlightenment Foundation Libraries (EFL)

These provide both a semi-traditional toolkit set in Elementary as well as the object canvas (Evas) and powerful abstracted objects (Edje) that you can combine, mix and match, even layer on top of each other with alpha channels and events in-tact. It has 3D transformations for all objects and more.

A overview of the EFL (Enlightenment Foundation Libraries) stack is here. There is more to this, but this gives a quick overview of where it fits in.

EFL Block Diagram
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Enlightenment News

E17 bugfix release, E18 + EDBUSv2 snapshots
Jan 31, 2013 at 02:30 PM

Due to various things, this is coming out a couple weeks later than expected. Who would have guessed that we would be behind schedule on a release?

I'd write out a full changelog here, but it would be far too massive.
Instead, here is a link to the current trunk NEWS file. The bugfix release contains most of the fixes listed here, so long as they did not require new features or libraries.

  • E17.1 (bugfix release): [GZ] [BZ2]
  • EDBUSv2 snapshot (required if using E18 snapshot with 1.7 branch): [GZ] [BZ2]
  • E18 SNAPSHOT - 83478 [GZ] [BZ2]

Echievements Release: v3
Jan 5, 2013 at 08:14 AM

More translation updates and small bug fixes for the echievement-seeking masses:

  • Echievements v3 [GZ] [BZ2]

New EFL stable release: 1.7.5
Jan 4, 2013 at 02:00 PM

The Enlightenment Release Team is happy to announce the first series of updates to the EFL in 2013. Being an update to the stable tree, the 1.7.5 release is made mostly of bugfixes to our libraries. Please read the ChangeLog and NEWS files from each specific tarball in order to get more information about what has been fixed. This release corresponds with SVN revision 82180.

  • Eina 1.7.5 - [GZ] [BZ2]
  • Eet 1.7.5 - [GZ] [BZ2]
  • Evas 1.7.5 - [GZ] [BZ2]
  • Ecore 1.7.5 - [GZ] [BZ2]
  • Embryo 1.7.5 - [GZ] [BZ2]
  • Edje 1.7.5 - [GZ] [BZ2]
  • Efreet 1.7.5 - [GZ] [BZ2]
  • E_dbus 1.7.5 - [GZ] [BZ2]
  • Eeze 1.7.5 - [GZ] [BZ2]
  • Expedite 1.7.5 - [GZ] [BZ2]
  • Evas Generic Loaders 1.7.5 - [GZ] [BZ2]
  • Eio 1.7.5 - [GZ] [BZ2]
  • Emotion 1.7.5 - [GZ] [BZ2]
  • Ethumb 1.7.5 - [GZ] [BZ2]
  • Elementary 1.7.5 - [GZ] [BZ2]
  • Evil 1.7.5 - [GZ] [BZ2]

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