Category Archives: Enlightenment

Notes on contributions to the Enlightenment / E17 software project.

The Enlightenment Software Project

Enlightenment is the window manager of choice for my linux workstation. When I have time I create themes, software, and documentation for that open source project.

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Tutorial: Changing the Smoke Clock

The smoke clock’s digits scroll appropriately on each minute change, similar to a mechanical odometer. I chose the Andale Mono font because I wanted something thin and I liked the zeroes with the dot in the center, but any font can be used. Andale Mono might not be everybody’s taste so this is a short [...]

Smoke, an E17 theme

Smoke is a new theme for Enlightenment E17. I had collected a few ideas over the last few months and a few of them started looking like they would fit together nicely. Smoke is only available for the latest CVS release and supports desktop icons.

Circuit, an E17 background with a working 7-segment led display

In an email conversation, ROX mentioned something about wanting a background with a clock and it seemed like an interesting thing to do. The circuit background is inspired by that idea (as well, perhaps, as by April Fools day.) When you want to build a clock display you need a circuit diagram, of course, but [...]

Crema, a theme for E17

Crema is relatively light-weight and based on the default e17 theme. My purpose in taking the time to do this was to learn edje programing and to understand the hurdles involved in completing a theme. If you have successfully created an e17 theme you will probably agree with this: it is hard to [...]