Title | Enlightenment E19 Officially Released With Its Own Wayland Compositor | |
Date | Friday September 19 2014, @11:25AM | |
Author | LaminatorX | |
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from the bodhisattva dept. |
The Enlightenment desktop's development team reports:
The E19 Release Cycle has concluded. Thanks to everyone who helped along the way.
Major changes since the last stable release include:
Features:
- greatly improved wayland support
- E_WL_FORCE environment variable for forcing output types
- e_uuid_store: Add infrastructure to store window/surface properties.
- Add a tiling profile.
- per-screen desklock logo visibility config
- Tiling: Merge the tiling module rework..
- check udisks1 DevicePresentationHide flag
- ACTIVATE_EXCLUDE window active hint policy
- show video resolution in filepreview widget
- add fileman option to clamp video size for video previews
- handle xrandr backlight using a single, accurate handler
- blanking options for wakeup on events (urgent + notify)
- packagekit module for package manager integration
- ibar now optionaly triggers its menu on mouse in
- selective redirection toggling
- new focus option "raise on revert focus"
- add PIN-style desklock for lokker module
- make desklock hookable, break out current desklock into module, move pam stuff to separate file
- revive personal desklock passwords
- allow moveresize visuals to be replaced
- allow desk flip animations to be handled completely externally
- E16-style live pager returns!
- comp config is no longer a module
- E_FIRST_FRAME env variable
- new compositor API
- add E_MODULE_SRC_PATH for setting current module src path without needing to install modules
- use non-recursive makefiles for entire build system
Improvements:
- filemanager popups no longer span multiple monitors
- system operations no longer dim screen until action has begun
- window stacking and focus restore is more accurate across restarts
- gstreamer1 is now used for media previews
- improved multiple monitor setup reliability
- shaped windows now render more accurately
Phoronix notes
The Enlightenment E19 update is a huge upgrade over E18 or E17, especially if you're an early Wayland adopter.
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