Enlightenment - Beauty at your fingertips

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 News

ALPHA Release of core EFL
Aug 21, 2010 at 12:45 PM

Several core EFL libraries have now been released as alpha. This means the API is "good to go", but there may be bugs. The focus is on fixing bugs now and keeping API stable for a full release once bugs are gone. You can get the alpha releases of Eina, Eet, Evas, Ecore, Embryo, Edje, Efreet, E_Dbus and Eeze here.

You can also get the above libraries in their alpha state if you check out SVN revision 51480. The following libraries are in alpha state for the following versions:

Eina - 1.0.0 ALPHA
Eet - 1.4.0 ALPHA
Evas - 1.0.0 ALPHA
Ecore - 1.0.0 ALPHA
Embryo - 1.0.0 ALPHA
Edje - 1.0.0 ALPHA
E_Dbus - 1.0.0 ALPHA
Efreet - 1.0.0 ALPHA
Eeze - 1.0.0 ALPHA

Eet 1.3.2 released, Eina, Evas, Ecore, Embryo, Edje, E_Dbus, Efreet, E, Elementary snapped
Jun 27, 2010 at 10:45 PM

Eet 1.3.2 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 49898), and can be downloaded from here. If you are taking source from SVN, then use SVN revision 49898.

Eet 1.3.0 released, Eina, Evas, Ecore, Embryo, Edje, E_Dbus, Efreet, E, Elementary snapped
Jun 7, 2010 at 10:45 AM

Eet 1.3.0 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 49539), and can be downloaded from here. If you are taking source from SVN, then use SVN revision 49539.