2007-07-18 17:21:52 +04:00
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Introduction
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2007-07-18 21:32:49 +04:00
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Equinox Desktop Environment or EDE is small desktop environment,
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built to be simple and fast.
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It is based on concept of separated components, so each of them can
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be built, installed and used independently. Of course, full power
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of each component comes when they are combined together due many reasons
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like communication protocol between each of them.
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One of the main goals for EDE is to make desktop environment simple
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for usage and as much as possible productive. So, when you start it,
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it is already assumed you know 'where things are'. This is accomplished
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with familliar look and feel, without needs to learn 'how to start some application'
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or how to shutdown environment or computer.
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It is based on http://www.fltk.org[FLTK] GUI library with addition of our
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'edelib' library.
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EDE also tries to be http://freedesktop.org[freedesktop.org] friendly
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following proposed standards; this allows easier integration with other
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desktop environments, or their components (counting those that follows
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freedesktop.org specifications).
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