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Enlightenment and EFL Developer Documentation

Enlightenment has developed from a window manager into a set of libraries that support a large number of exciting applications. Aimed primarily at slick graphical presentation and optimal runtime we created the Enlightenment Foundation Libraries and have created the following documentation to help everyone get involved - thanks for stopping by.

Getting Started

If you are going to use EFL, we encourage you to actually work with EFL from git mostly because it allows you to either track stable branches to get latest fixes long before a release is out, or to track latest features and development continually. This is also the case if you want to contribute. Of course you can use stable packages for your distribution as well.

Getting EFL

Many operating systems have packages of EFL, Enlightenment and many of our apps. The specific information for each platform is available from Get Source and sub-pages.


EFL Documentation

The EFL is currently undergoing a significant redesign to give a better developer experience when building apps using our platform. We will be announcing the new API shortly to get early feedback from developers but for now we recommend using the stable API and its Bindings.

You can find all the documentation for our stable C API, and bindings to C++ and Python. We also have a preview available for our Beta API documentation.

Themes / Edje / EDC

A core part of Enlightenment and EFL is the design/theme abstraction layer. This is handled by the Edje library and a series of tools that can compile/package up theme files and compress them, decompile them, and even provide some GUI editors too.


Developers

That's it for the basics - hopefully you are now up and running with the EFL (and perhaps Enlightenment too!) and looking to learn more. If you want to find out more or get a guide to some of our detailed topics you can check out the Programming Guide or work through the stable API Tutorials Here is a collection of guides and tutorials to help you get deeper into working with our libraries and building great apps.

Be sure to Contact Us to show what you've built!

Contributing

We are really excited that you would like to get involved in EFL and Enlightenment development! If you followed the instructions in “Getting Started” then you are most of the way to being part of the team. To start with it's easiest to see which area you would like to work on and get involved in bug reporting, fixing or other types of contributing. From there you can get to know the team, how we work, and earn a place on the team as a core developer :)