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The launch of the new version of the window manager «Enlightenment 0.26.0» which comes after a year and a half of development with a host of bug fixes, as well as support improvements and more.
For those unfamiliar with the Enlightenment desktop, you should know that it is made up of components like a file manager, a set of widgets, an application launcher and a set of graphical configurators.
Enlightenment is very flexible in processing: graphic configurators do not restrict the user in the configuration and allow him to configure all aspects of the work, providing high-level tools (design change, virtual desktop configuration, font management, screen resolution, keyboard layout, localization, etc. .), as well as low-level tuning opportunities (for example, you can configure caching, graphical acceleration, power consumption, window manager logic).
Main new features of Enlightenment 0.26
In this new version that is presented of Enlightenment 0.26.0 the main goal from developers was to provide more stability to the desktop to improve the user experience, thereby Some new features were added of which the addition of a Display Data Channel configuration (DDC) to control the screen backlight, Plus task previews are now larger and an improved overview of open apps has been included.
Another improvement implemented is that EFM (the file manager) now has the ability to add actions with files through desktop files, it is also highlighted that added support for disabling screen saver activation via the org.freedesktop.ScreenSaver API and that a watchdog process was added to detect crashes in the main event loop.
Along with the release of Enlightenment 0.26 new version of EFL 1.27 released in which Evas library introduced, for rendering text, images, and objects on the screen, has added support for loading and saving images in JXL and QOI formats.
En Eina API was added to work with relative paths and sha1 hashes, while in Ecore it has added the ability to force an exe file to run along with its main process on the Windows platform.
Of the other changes that stand out from this new version:
- Added support for the DBus API provided by the logind systemd service to lock and unlock sessions
- Added an option to use the Randr X11 extension by calling the xrandr utility, instead of calling via the API.
- Compatibility fixes have been made for Wayland, now providing an on-screen label indicating the experimental nature of Wayland support.
- To ensure that configuration changes are saved, the new disk synchronization API provided by the Eet library is enabled.
- Added an option to control window hidden state settings via the NetWM API (_NET_WM_STATE_HIDDEN property).
- elm_cnp, an implementation of the clipboard copy-paste mechanism, has added support for URL lists.
- Added a call to Eet, a data serialization and deserialization library, to synchronize changes to disk.
- Added support for the LibreSSL 3.5.x library and removed support for GnuTLS.
- The Elemental widget set requires the use of standard theme icons.
- Widgets allow pasting from the clipboard into password fields.
Finally, if you want to know more about this launch, you can consult the announcement in the following link.
Get Enlightenment 0.26
For those who are interested in being able to install this new version, they should know that You can now find this new version of Enlightenment and EFL in the repositories of your Linux distribution.
Likewise, for those interested in compiling the source code, you can obtain the necessary packages the following link.