What is Equinox Desktop Environment ?
Equinox Desktop Environment (shortly EDE) is small desktop environment, built to be simple and fast. It is based on modified FLTK library (called extended FLTK or just eFLTK).
Comparing to other desktop environments, EDE is much faster and smaller in memory space (EDE's window manager use less memory than xterm).
The word equinox comes from the Latin for equal night. The equinoxes in March and September are the two occasions each year when the day and the night are of equal duration. For measuring the length of a day, sunrise is the moment when the sun is half-above the horizon and sunset is the moment when the sun is half-under the horizon. Using this definition, the length of the day (and the night) is precisely 12 hours at an equinox. more...
Features and support
- desktop with icons and wallpaper
- Xft font anti-aliasing
- taskbar with configurable menu, cpu status, easy keyboard switching
- theming
- localization
- etc.
Graphical front-end for:
- xscreensaver configuration
- software installation (.rpm, .deb, .tgz)
- time and time-zone configuration
- fast file and directory search utility
- etc.
Requirements:
- usual build tools (gcc, automake, autoconf, etc... - you should not worry about this, this comes with your distribution)
- eFLTK, a modified FLTK version
- and small amount of your nerves ;)
