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EDE: Small and Fast Desktop Environment

https://edeproject.org/
48•bradley_taunt•3h ago

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GaryBluto•1h ago
Funny this should be posted. I was just considering this for a Boot CD project a few months ago.
WD-42•1h ago
Very cool! Love the crystal icon set. I remember when that was first released, it was mind blowing.
edoceo•1h ago
Wow! This looks like XP/Win2k. Gotta put this on the parents computer, they'll be happy they got their old Windows back. (They don't really like Xfce)
29athrowaway•1h ago
Maybe they like LXQt more.

XFCE can be themed to be almost identical to XP.

mghackerlady•52m ago
theres a windows 9x total conversion out there iirc
packetlost•44m ago
I don't think it's complete but I have that mostly set up with LXQT on NixOS on my Framework desktop. I love it
wild_egg•31m ago
Chicago95 theme for XFCE is great
ikamm•47m ago
The Q4OS distro has an addon called XPQ4 which has some old Windows themes https://xpq4.sourceforge.io/
skerit•29m ago
I like these kind of themes in theory, but they're always a bit janky. Not that they have to be pixel perfect, but they're always broken enough that they're not a pleasure to use.
WillAdams•1h ago
Any chance of an rPi image?
woleium•1h ago
i imagine it’s trivial to install on raspian?
a96•51m ago
https://edeproject.org/wiki/binarypackages Don't see anything for ARM, but might be as simple as getting the source package and (de)building debs for it.
tyfon•54m ago
I tried to search their wiki for wayland, but got zero hits so I guess this is for X11 only?

Edit: nevermind, I see this is relatively "ancient" software. Last release over 10 years ago :)

Will take it for a spin on an old computer though

a96•54m ago
> EDE (Equinox Desktop Environment) is a simple and fast desktop environment for *nix-like systems. It uses the FLTK GUI toolkit and offers a familiar look and feel. EDE is designed according to the UNIX philosophy, which means it offers seperate executables for each component to “do one job and do it good”. This makes EDE very modular and also easy to alter for any user's special needs and requirements.

TIHI, but I can definitely see places where this would be useful. Based on the name, I thought it was just Enlightenment/E rebrand or something.

analog8374•52m ago
I like the look of this. It looks like mate, which I presently use. I wonder what the difference is
BirAdam•16m ago
Well, FLTK instead of GTK is a big one. Also, EDE more closely mimics the Win98 Explorer rather than GNOME. EDE is also lighter weight.
analog8374•44m ago
Have we arrived at where everybody knows what a desktop environment should look like?

I mean, an end to experiments and variants and improvements. We all know how it should be and anything else is wrong.

I would like that.

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EDE: Small and Fast Desktop Environment

https://edeproject.org/
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