On Sun, Mar 25, 2012 at 7:33 PM, Leif Middelschulte <leif.middelschulte at gmail.com> wrote: > Hey there, > > > I'd like to porpose to work on the enhancement of the e17 desktop > shell, to improve the user interface experience of people with low > power systems like tablets. Why e17? Read below. > > Fedora already provides und supports two heavy weight desktop > environments (GNOME and KDE) and two lightweight ones (XFCE and LXDM). > > E17 is a lightweight, yet very configurable and featurerich desktop > shell for X window systems built upon the Enlightenment Foundation > Libraries. These libraries are highly optimized for usage in resource > restricted environments, as their usage as e.g. UI kit in Tizen > prooves. > > Supporting my work on e17 will directly improve the user interface > experience of fedora users who only have access to machines with > limited ressource such as: > - Tablets > - Old Devices > > Due to it's efficiency it reduces the time to (desktop) usage > significantly, which improves the fedora experience on every other > machine too. > > Subproject ideas: > - Advanced RandRR configuration (like monitor profile assignments to > put e.g. Impress fullscreen windows on "projectors") > - Improved tablet user interface customization (e17 supports so-called profiles) > - connman support improvement (support WPA-EAP) > - Improved notification center > - libcanberra support > - Configuration dialogs in general > - Themeconverter for other window manager themes > > Last, but not least I think that the cooperation of fedora with the > enlightenment project is a good opportunity for both to promote the > usage of desktop distributions on tablets. > > Please let me know if you need any further information. > > Best regards, > > Leif Hello Leif, Thanks for the idea. I have one question, who is the mentor for this idea? Or are you seeking a mentor? -- Regards, Buddhike Chandradeepa Kurera(bckurera) Fedora Ambassador - APAC region Event Liaison - Design Team Email: bckurera at fedoraproject.org | IRC: bckurera
