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EDE or Equinox Desktop Environment is a small desktop environment
Desktop environment

In graphical computing, a desktop environment commonly refers to a style of graphical user interface that is based on the desktop metaphor which can be seen on most modern personal computers today....
 that is meant to be simple and fast. It is based on a modified version of FLTK
FLTK

The "Fast, Light Toolkit" is a cross-platform graphical user interface library, developed by Bill Spitzak and others. Made with 3D computer graphics programming in mind, it has an interface to OpenGL, but it is still suitable for general GUI programming....
 called eFLTK.

he future, EDE 2 will be released, based on regular FLTK.. In EDE 2, FLTK will be extended by EDE's own library edelib. edelib contains functionality for creating a window, saving program configuration, communicating via D-Bus, loading icon themes, etc.






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EDE or Equinox Desktop Environment is a small desktop environment
Desktop environment

In graphical computing, a desktop environment commonly refers to a style of graphical user interface that is based on the desktop metaphor which can be seen on most modern personal computers today....
 that is meant to be simple and fast. It is based on a modified version of FLTK
FLTK

The "Fast, Light Toolkit" is a cross-platform graphical user interface library, developed by Bill Spitzak and others. Made with 3D computer graphics programming in mind, it has an interface to OpenGL, but it is still suitable for general GUI programming....
 called eFLTK.

EDE 2

In the future, EDE 2 will be released, based on regular FLTK.. In EDE 2, FLTK will be extended by EDE's own library edelib. edelib contains functionality for creating a window, saving program configuration, communicating via D-Bus, loading icon themes, etc. EDE2 will be following the FreeDesktop.org guidelines.

EDE distributions

EDE is not as common in Linux distributions as other desktop environments such as KDE
KDE

KDE is a free software project based around its flagship product, a desktop environment for Unix-like systems. The goal of the project is to provide basic desktop functions and applications for daily needs as well as tools and documentation for developers to write stand-alone applications for the system....
, GNOME
Gnome

A gnome is a mythical creature characterized by its extremely small size and wiktionary:subterranean lifestyle. The word gnome is derived from the New Latin gnomus....
, and Xfce
Xfce

Xfce is a free software desktop environment for Unix and other Unix-like platforms, such as Linux, Solaris and BSD. It aims to be fast and lightweight, while still being visually appealing and easy to use....
. It is available as an optional package in Minix 3
MINIX 3

MINIX 3 is a project to create a small, highly reliable and functional Unix-like operating system. The main goal of the project is for the system to be fault-tolerant by detecting and repairing its own faults on the fly, without user intervention....
.

However, EDE is available in the Mandriva Linux
Mandriva Linux

Mandriva Linux is an operating system created by Mandriva . It uses the RPM Package Manager. The product lifetime of Mandriva Linux releases is 18 months for base updates and 12 months for desktop updates ....
 medias since its version 2009.0.

See also

  • Comparison of X Window System desktop environments


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