It's a delicious irony that E is now a super-lightweight system compared with the mainstream environments that plauge our RAM chips today.
replyI still remember how cool I thought raster was with his vaio and everything. This was the future! Transparent eterms and tasteful backgrounds everywhere.
replyit’s not a valid enlightenment screenshot without a digital blasphemy wallpaper.
reply(digital blasphemy is still around and still selling art.)
Yes! Thank you. That’s a blast from the past
replyI remember fondly of a raster talk at FOSDEM about 20 years ago: playing videos inside a terminal. Amazing!
replyWow, I think I remember that talk, too. And I remember thinking, "why would anyone want to run a video inside a terminal?!" I still don't want to do that, but it was cool that enabling that feature only required a few lines of code, since EFL(?) already supported it, was already linked in, and the code to start it was minimal.
reply> tasteful backgrounds everywhere.
replyCertainly not everywhere. I definitely remember plenty of tasteless ones, some deliberately so and others just cases of other people's taste differing from mine!
This was the era of !hurl, after all …
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