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Enlightenment Window Manager
Enlightenment, also known simply as E, is a compositing window manager for the X Window System. Since version 20, Enlightenment is also a Wayland compositor. Enlightenment developers have referred to it as "the original eye-candy window manager." Enlightenment includes functions to provide a graphical shell and can be used in conjunction with programs written for GNOME or KDE. When used together with the Enlightenment Foundation Libraries (EFL), Enlightenment can refer to an entire desktop environment. History The first version of Enlightenment was released by Rasterman (Carsten Haitzler) in 1997. Version 0.17, also referred to as E17, was in development for 12 years starting in December 2000 until 21 December 2012 when it was officially released as stable. During the development period it was also referred to as DR17 (Development Release 17). It is a complete rewrite on DR16 and was designed to be a full-fledged desktop shell, based on the new Enlightenment Foundation Libr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carsten Haitzler
Carsten Haitzler (born 1975), known as Raster or Rasterman to the free software movement, open source community, is an Australian-German software engineer, best known for initiating and leading the development of the Enlightenment (software), Enlightenment window manager and its Enlightenment Foundation Libraries, libraries. Life and work Carsten Haitzler was born in Nigeria of a German people, German father and Finnish people, Finnish mother, but soon moved with his family to Germany where he lived until the age of four. Haitzler then moved to Sydney, Australia where he attended the University of New South Wales, graduating with a bachelor's degree in computer science. In 1997 Haitzler moved to North Carolina, United States, U.S. to work for Red Hat in the development of the Common Object Request Broker Architecture, CORBA, Xlib, GTK+ libraries, then later moved to work with Geeknet, VA Linux Systems. In Sydney, Haitzler worked for Fluffy Spider Technologies where he refined, o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
