EDE: Small and Fast Desktop Environment (2014) (edeproject.org)

Funny this should be posted. I was just considering this for a Boot CD project a few months ago.

Very cool! Love the crystal icon set. I remember when that was first released, it was mind blowing.

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)

Any chance of an rPi image?

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

> 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.

I like the look of this. It looks like mate, which I presently use. I wonder what the difference is

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.

Oh nice. I occasionally mention EDE in desktop roundups on El Reg. Glad it is not forgotten.

It's based on FLTK, and although the effort to create FLTK 2.0 faltered and died a few years ago, last year there was a new point release, FLTK 1.4, the first in 13 years.

I wrote about it almost exactly a year ago:

https://www.theregister.com/2024/11/26/fltk_14_released/

(In researching that I discovered that apparently it's not pronounced "eff ell tee kay" but "full tick".)

Since then it's got up to 1.4.4, and they're working on FLTK 1.5. And yes it supports Wayland now.

So maybe it's time for a new release of EDE to go with it. :-)

https://www.fltk.org/

If anyone wants some screenshots: https://edeproject.org/page/screenshots

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EDE is a standalone WM/DE with a Windows 9x look

XPde was a similar project, but with a Windows XP look. Their site seems dead, though I'm sure the software could be found out there somewhere https://web.archive.org/web/20070825005617/http://www.xpde.c...

Oh I remember EDE being briefly reviewed some 20 years ago in local Linux magazine and if I'm not mistaken being a part of Mandrake packages selection

There's Dillo and Florb (Open Street Maps client). Now we just need a simple MPV UI and some kind of FLMail client. On office suites, someone should modernize Siag Office with XFT and Unicode support.

If anyone says "that's outdated crap", Siag supports RTF, and the spreadsheet module could just use plugins written in Scheme with incredible features related to number crunching. Printing? PostScript and PDF, problem solved.