This is the Get-E.org Enlightenment DR17 User Guide. Please note that this guide only covers the E17 windowmanager and its dependencies. For information on other EFL based programs, consult the EFL user guide instead.

2.2 - Features

Listed below are some of E17's many features. This list is subject to change as development progresses.

• ICCWM compliant window management
• NETWM standard support
• UTF-8 support for comprehensive localization
• Translated into 20 languages
• Light weight and fast
• Highly scalable graphics system
• Rich visual effects to emphasize certain user actions and bring the desktop to life
• Uses anti-aliased fonts everywhere inside the window manager
• Extensive menu system
• Extensive theme and skin system
• Supports animated themes, skins, icon files, and desktop backgrounds
• Uses a uniform binary format optimized for performance & ease of use for end-users
• Icon drag & drop system
• Customizable animated mouse cursors
• Real transparency on the desktop canvas level
• Configurable keybindings
• Multiple focus modes
• Window states, locks and remember states
• Customizable virtual desktops, allowing different backgrounds on separate virtual desktops
• E16 style edge flipping
• Windows can also be dragged from one desktop to another
• Module extension system
• Add or remove functionality by loading or unloading various modules
• Gadgets
• An application [ applet, widget, desklet ] with a condensed user interface that is drawn either in a Gadget Container or directly on the desktop.
• Gadget Containers
• The current e17 gadget geometry handler.
• A module provides a gadget constructor, which gadget containers can then call to instantiate gadgets.
• Shelf
• The shelf [ panel ] is basically a themed area located along the edge or corner of a screen with a linear Gadget Container embedded in it.