Hi welcome to my site, I originally won it in a programming contest  while at uni and have kept it running since to show work i am doing on various small projects in my spare time and to share some of my thoughts opinions and ideas

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As you may or may not be aware in version 25 Enlightenment is now using a completely new theme, given the time and effort that I have invested into themes based off the old Dark theme it made sense in my head for me to continue maintaining it. To that extent I have gone through the new Flat theme and added pretty much every new feature except color classes (they would be alot of work), my initial aim to have this done at e release time, however, some things like icons have taken far longer hence only releasing now.

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Every now and then SUSE lets its engineers have a “Hackweek” were we can work on anything that we think is of value. This Hackweek I focused on improving testing of the Enlightenment desktop, I had 3 main goals, 1. Id like to be able to run tests on EFL / Enlightenment tarballs before there [&hellip More...

Just a short update, I was going to write this 6 months ago but never quite got to it, so here’s a quick update on what i’ve been doing. 6 Months ago I left my previous job and started working for SUSE Linux which has been a great change and experience. In my spare time [&hellip More...

Hi All, it has come to that time of year where once again I tell you about all the new goodies we have in enlightenment for this release. In this release enlightenment itself hasn't changed that much, its got the stable 0.19.12 release with a stack of fixes hopefully making it really stable.

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First your probably wondering where parts 1-4 are, the truth is i’m to lazy to write them atm, they have been started though. Anyway here’s a quick teaser video of progress so far with a bit of info below. Some of the key components are: ODROID C1 (Running openSUSE Linux) LCD (Not in use today) More...

I was Asked about this thread http://forums.bodhilinux.com/index.php?/topic/12322-e17-vs-e19-which-are-you-using-and-why/, and bodhi’s announcement about forking enlightenment e17 http://www.bodhilinux.com/2015/04/28/introducing-the-moksha-desktop/ if it means anything for openSUSE in the comments to https://simotek.net/tech/projects/opensuse-e/enlightenment-on-opensuse-13-2/. The short answer is it won’t really have much effect. Elive also maintain there own fork of e17, I feel that the main difference between openSUSE and these distro’s [&hellip More...

Several times a year SUSE has the concept of a hackweek, where employees get to work on whatever they thing will benefit openSUSE. I Don’t work at SUSE but I still like to use the idea of the week to deviate from my standard openSUSE packaging and spend time looking at something a little different. [&hellip More...

Three features i have missed in enlightenment from previous systems i have used are the ability to cycle through wallpapers from a folder, a photo frame gadget for photos that don't work as well as a wallpaper and a good system monitor gadget. I have finally found a way to do all these using external programs so I thought i'd share them with you. I'll start off with setting up each program then go through how to lauch any program on startup and turn any program into a desktop gadget.... More...

Fortunately e19 landed just in time to get into openSUSE 13.2 ...

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Hi all, the major versions we will be shipping for openSUSE have now landed in the X11:Enlightenment:Factory repo, and will probably move to openSUSE:Factory in the next couple of weeks. As such the X11:Enlightenment:Nightly repo won’t see much attention until after the 13.2 release, I will probably still run the script around once a week [&hellip More...