e17

[martinr]

Hi!

I gave mageia2KDE a try today and installed it on HD, after my old laptop ibmt23 refused to start mageia3-beta, this ended in some kernel-panic.
Where can I find the actual e17.0-packages? In the repo I only found an outdated version 0.16.999-6xxxx from somewhen last year. There must be some new packages around here, confirming the last posts in this thread
https://forums.mageia.org/en/viewtopic.php?f=11&t=2061

Have I to look in testing-repo, and even more, can I upgrade the whole system to testing?
Otherwise I should find place on my ibmt60 and install there mageia3-beta, at least the live-cd runs there perfect.

Thanx for any tips!

Martin

[winstonteacox]

Hi!

E17 is in Cauldron (Mageia 3beta). Very nice DE...

You can install Cauldron on your IBM (recommended). Updating from Mga2 to Cauldron is a problem at the moment, so I wouldn't recommend it.

cheers,
Bernd

[martinr]

Gonna try it like it is described here

https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Cauldron

It´ a try, and maybe worth

Martin

[martinr]

OOOps, this went wrong...
First I detected, after installing the old e17version 0.16999.69xxx, the new e17.0-version beside the old one in the repos after activating the core-testing. It was marked as an mga3-package, dated with 20130125
So I tried to install it, this was not possible because of unsolved dependencies with e17-old, so it was not an update, what I had presumed before.
I purged the old e17-stuff, ended up with a bunch of orphaned packages and purged these too
Now I just know better...
So the system was useless anyway, no more access to MCC and installing software, and tremendous slow; I started the upgrade to cauldron, what ended in a desaster.
Ok, learning by doing
I installed mageia2 once more, did all the updates etc and had a look to e17 in the repos: the new version e17.0 has disappeared! Seems to be a one-day-wonder
2 Questions please:
- will there be the new e17.0 be available for mageia2?
- is it possible, mix packages from different distros of mageia or will you run in hassle doing this?

Thanx a lot

Martin

[viking60]

2 Questions please:
- will there be the new e17.0 be available for mageia2?

It is possible to install a fully functional e17: just do a

Code: Select all

urpmi task-e17

you should follow the repos (16.9999) and normal updates. It will probably be updated eventually. If you want bleeding edge you would want to pick a distro like Arch anyway.
Here is a picture of my VB install after loging in to e17 I only clicked next and had the fully functional install.

- is it possible, mix packages from different distros of mageia or will you run in hassle doing this?

Yes - and you will fall on your nose if you do it.

And IMHO e17 is more candy than functionality so I would recommend openbox.

[xxblx]

And IMHO e17 is more candy than functionality so I would recommend openbox.

OpenBox can't look nice like e17.
For example, my e17 desktop

all panels and gadgets from E17.

As I think E17 is not WM already. It's look like small DE.

[oj]

@ xxblx Looking at that cat on the precipice of disaster makes me cringe... I wonder if it's still alive.

[xxblx]

@ xxblx Looking at that cat on the precipice of disaster makes me cringe... I wonder if it's still alive.

it's just a bravest cat in the world

[viking60]

OpenBox can't look nice like e17.
For example, my e17 desktop

all panels and gadgets from E17.

As I think E17 is not WM already. It's look like small DE.

I beg to differ:

But I have to admit that e17 looks very nice and it has cool animations too. I does not have the functionality of openbox though; you can do way more with it.
By the way that is Gizmo (our house terrorist) behind a transparent urxvt terminal integrated in the OB wallpaper (running htop)-the menu is cairo-dock.

Edit: Here is a poor excuse of a video to show the flexibility - have a look at the window "aero snap" done with the WIN+arrow keys (click <show>).
(I have to link to it since the youtube video integration on this board is not quite finished yet....)