Released the Enlightenment 0.24 window manager, known for its impressive appearance while consuming minimal computational resources based on EFL.
Among the announced improvements:
- New screenshot module with an editor and cropping
- Many setuid utilities have been consolidated into one
- Monitor brightness adjustment is done via (lib)ddctil
- Thumbnail size in EFM increased to 256Ă256 by default
- Improved error handling for guru meditation
- Seamless restart with fade-out without artifacts
- Importing desktop wallpapers creates versions in multiple resolutions for better efficiency
- Uses malloc_trim to reduce memory consumption
- Restarts are now handled using enlightenment_start
- Pointer locking to the screen in X to prevent the cursor from falling off the edge
- The old desktop pager has been replaced with 'thumbnail previews'
- Music control automatically invokes the user-selected media player
- Handling Steam game exceptions to find the required desktop shortcut
- Support for polkit authentication as a kernel module without the need for additional daemons
- Simplified wallpaper setup for each desktop from the pager
- Smoother starting due to the input/output preloading stream
- The fade-out period when locking the screen can be reduced
- Bluez4 replaced with Bluez5
KĂ€lla: linux.org.ru
