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). 
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 simple 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. 
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Enlightenment NewsEet 1.2.3 released, Eina, Evas, Ecore, Embryo, Edje, E_Dbus, Efreet, E, Elementary snapped
Eet 1.2.3 has been released with several bugfixes and improvements. It is considered stable. It is available from here. Eina, Evas, Ecore, Embryo, Edje, E_Dbus, Efreet, Elementary and Enlightenment have had a snapshot release (snapshot 063), and can be downloaded from here. If you are taking source from SVN, then use SVN revision 44144. Enlightenment Foundation Library running on 2 millions little set top box.
Since now a few days, the Enlightenment Foundation Library are running on around 2 or 3 millions French set top box. Free.fr is openning the development on the Freebox HD by using a combination of the EFL and Mozilla JavaScript library. This open with a relatively old hardware some great graphical possibility. Free.fr is planning to open some kind of store for this JavaScript apps during the beginning of 2010. Enlightenment working with top-tier electronics maker
We are working with a top-5 electronics producer (one of the largest in the world, who produces millions of mobile phones, televisions, sound systems and more per year) to bring Enlightenment and especially it's deep technology to their products. In fact not just working with this manufacturer, but they are actively sponsoring development on Enlightenment and EFL to ensure it does what is needed for their products (beyond what it already does). |
