Lightweight display manager

Nikolas Arend Nikolas.Arend at gmx.net
Mon Apr 25 09:14:21 CEST 2005


Lucas Meneghel Rodrigues wrote:

>Entrance is nice, it does the job fairly well, but it seems to be a
>bit buggy. Those many fire/light animations don't help either...
>
>Anyway, none of the apps currently using EFL are meant for production
>use, they are just technology showcases. Really cool ones, but just
>showcases :)
>
>In a related note, The EFL are a really impressive job. I couldn't
>believe that my old laptop (p 266 MMX, 64 Mb RAM) was able to do so
>many fancy effects without crawling. However, being a technology
>preview, E17 is really annoying for everyday use. I mean really.
>
>  
>

Well yes, it's not ready yet, so of course not meant for production use.
I was just mentioning entrance as a source of inspiration when writing a
new dm. No one must use entrance itself and I guess there's also no need
to use evas etc. as widget library, either.

Regards,   Nick.




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