We're sorry but this page doesn't work properly without JavaScript enabled. Please enable it to continue.
Feedback

EDE, a light desktop environmnent

Formal Metadata

Title
EDE, a light desktop environmnent
Title of Series
Number of Parts
90
Author
License
CC Attribution 2.0 Belgium:
You are free to use, adapt and copy, distribute and transmit the work or content in adapted or unchanged form for any legal purpose as long as the work is attributed to the author in the manner specified by the author or licensor.
Identifiers
Publisher
Release Date
Language

Content Metadata

Subject Area
Genre
Abstract
EDE is desktop environment designed to be light in resource usage, have known look and does not get in your way. It is running on Linux, *BSD, Solaris, Minix and on devices like Zaurus or Xbox. Popular desktop environments became resource hogs and are pretty much unusable on older hardware and popular cheap devices like Raspberry Pi and MK802. To run the latest KDE or GNOME versions, you will need a powerful hardware with good graphic card, a similar requirements set by modern 3D games. Isn't that sad? That is why we are seeing increased interest in light window managers and desktop environments in recent years. EDE belongs to the same group. Built on FLTK toolkit, library originating in movie industry with design to be fast and easy to use, EDE uses the similar principles brining full asynchronous desktop, that starts up quickly, giving user familiar look and feel. With this, user is focused on doing job not tuning environment to be usable. This talk will give quick overview of project goals (why EDE is here and why use FLTK), current status (what is done) and future plans (can we have live environment).