OT Enlightenment 16 => 17 opinions ??

[William Case]

On Sun, 2009-09-06 at 18:59 -0400, William Case wrote:
> Hi;
> 
> I have opened a new user account to try out Enlightenment desktop.  I
> have been playing with E16 all afternoon and kind of like it.  Before I
> really dive in though, I was wondering if it is worth downloading E17.

It turns out enlightenment-0.16.999.050-3.fc11.x86_64 is the one I
installed from the Fedora repo.  The version numbers are so close I
wonder if this means it is virtually the same as version 17.

> It is not an rpm so I would have to install it from source.  That's OK
> -- but, is there enough improvement over the E16 in the Fedora 11 repo
> to make the building of E17 worthwhile?
> 
> I don't as yet want to replace gnome or anything, but I would like to
> have some fun playing around with new eye candy and new ways of doing
> things in my new guest user account.
> 
> I have checked reviews on line -- they are mixed, out of date, and not
> really applicable.
> 
> Has anybody tried E17?  What did you think of it?
> 
> -- 
> Regards Bill
> Fedora 11, Gnome 2.26.3
> Evo.2.26.3, Emacs 23.1.1
> 
-- 
Regards Bill
Fedora 11, Gnome 2.26.3
Evo.2.26.3, Emacs 23.1.1