SlackE17

File Release Notes and Changelog

Release Name: 20061006

Notes:

These are important notes about upgrading SlackE17. Please read this carefully.


Clean your config files before launching E17
--------------------------------------------

1. move or remove your ~/.e folder.

2. remove any /tmp/enlightenment-* folder.

3. run again xwmconfig to update your ~/.xinitrc

4. if you want to always run entrance (xdm replacement) at boot, 
   do something like: 
     
# echo '/etc/rc.d/rc.entrance start' >> /etc/rc.d/rc.local


EAP are now deprecated
----------------------

EAP files are now deprecated, E17 will now use *.desktop files.
Both format must work, but you should convert your old EAP files with
'eap_to_desktop' utility.


Old themes are broken
---------------------

Old themes and backgrounds from april are not any more compatible with E17. You
have some new themes and init screens in e_themes package. You can build your
own backgrounds or download new ones at <http://www.get-e.org/>


Where is the systray?
---------------------

Yeah, E17 doesn't provide anymore a systray utility. Rasterman explained 
several times why it's not easy to implement. 

"The Systray specification that somehow users seem to ask for and applications 
seem to use that is specified <here> primarily, is not as nice as you may 
think. It is in fact rather ugly and limited. It leads to awful interfaces and 
inconsistent behavior and display." -- Rasterman

Because systray is somehow useful, I included 'trayer' in SlackE17. To use it,
uncomment the related line  in your ~/.xinitrc or in /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc.e17


About shelves
--------------

The big changes of the last months was about modules. You now have to put them
all in shelves. This can be seen as a regression, because the shelves must be
on a side of the screen. That means, you can not put yet again a module in the
middle of the screen. You can create as much shelves as you want, and customize
them a lot (like transparency). You'll be able to do more later.


How to use emphasis
-------------------

emphasis is a music player using MPD. Before playing the first time, you should
configure MPD (# vim /etc/mpd.conf), create a database ( $ mpd --create-db).
You must then launch mpd before starting emphasis.


Vera fonts
----------

Most duplicate Vera fonts were removed and replaced by links to the system ones. 
This saves a lot of space.



Changes:

ChangeLog for SlackE17 <http://slacke17.sf.net/>

[2006-10-06]
Moving to Slackware 11.0
added:
+e_modules/bling
+e_modules/deskshow
+e_modules/eveil
+e_modules/language
+e_modules/mail
+e_modules/mixer
+e_modules/winselector
+e_themes
+estickies
+libextractor
+libmpd
+mpd
+emphasis
+edje_viewer
+etk_perl
+entrance_edit_gui
+e_phys
+trayer
removed:
-Eterm
-Eterm_backgrounds
-libast
-elapse (broken)
-elicit (broken)
-elitaire (broken)
-evidence (we now have entropy)
-cairo (in Slackware 11.0)
-e_modules/mount (broken)
-e_modules/devian (broken)
-e_modules/calendar (broken)
-e_modules_extra (merged with e_modules)
-enotes (deprecated, see estickies)
The Vera fonts were removed and linked against the system ones. Save a lot of
space.

[2006-04-08] (r115)
Fonts were removed from e17/e CVS so this release of SlackE17 will hopefully
be lighter :^) You should note the addition of e17genmenu in e package, that
you may want to run just after your SlackE17 installation.
This should be the last release for Slackware 10.2.
added:
+empower
+enity
+e_modules/mbar
+etk_server
removed:
-entice (broken)

[2006-03-05]
Major update
The three main trees of SlackE17, -libs, -base and -extras have been merged.
There is now only one package, that contains everything you need to use
E17 on Slackware. 
added:
+cairo
+poppler
+elitaire
+epdf
+ephoto
+extrackt
removed:
-feh
-giblib
-camE

[2006-01-30]
code updated
added:
+exml
+extra modules
removed:
-enterminus (broken)
-eclips (broken)
-eeh (broken)
-emenu (deprecated)

[2005-12-26]
code updated
emotion patched to use xine 1.0.3a
added:
+exhibit
+eeh
+eConfig
+camE
+scrot

[2005-11-23]
code updated
OpenGL support added
added:
+Eterm backgrounds
+entropy
+equate
+evfs
+eclair
+sqlite
removed:
-enscribe (broken)

[2005-10-18]
code updated
added:
+elapse
+translations of documentations

[2005-09-20]
First release


--
Jerome Pinot <ngc891@gmail.com>