Hacking E17
E17 — the next version of the classic [Enlightenment][] window
manager — is getting better and better each day, and it’s fun to
hack! Not that I’ve done anything ground-breaking with it, but it’s
fun nonetheless.
After my initial success with the keyboard move/resize patch I
sat down and wrote a Danish translation for E17. This doesn’t really
count at coding, except that I also changed the Autoconf and
Automake macros used so that one no longer has to edit both
configure.in and po/Makefile.am when adding new translations.
Again, it’s nothing deep, but it’s nice to be able to contribute a
little here and there. And by the way, if someone has any suggestions
for the Danish translation then please send them my way… I have
no clue how to translate several of the terms used in a window
manager, for example, what Danish word would you translate ‘Shade’
into?
Danish or not — if you’re running Linux, then you should definitely
try downloading Enlightenment (do a [CVS][] checkout of e17/libs and
e17/apps) and build it. Everything builds and installs very nicely
without requiring root access when you use ./autogen.sh
--prefix=~/opt or similar. If you don’t want to bother compiling E17
yourself, then you can get packages for [Debian][] here. I don’t
know about packages for other distributions, but try checking
http://get-e.org/.
Martin Geisler:
I’ve just had a look at my site through Internet Explorer and there’s
a good and a bad thing to say about that:
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14 July 2005, 1:05 amThe good news: IE as installed on Stéphanie’s laptop renders the
PNG image correctly, including the alpha blended shadow. Very
cool! (There has been some progress here, for such PNG images used
to show up black in IE…)
The bad news: the layout is screwed! The sidebar does not do what
its name says it should do: stay at the side. Instead it drops
below the entire page… very strange. I guess I must have made one
too many changes to the Kubrick theme that goes along with
[WordPress][]… I’ll be making a new layout one day and then I’ll
fix it.