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. :-)
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
they posted literally just the wiki article for MUDs earlier, slow news day
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)
The Q4OS distro has an addon called XPQ4 which has some old Windows themes https://xpq4.sourceforge.io/
I like these kind of themes in theory, but they're always a bit janky. Not that they have to be pixel perfect, but they're always broken enough that they're not a pleasure to use.
Maybe they like LXQt more.
XFCE can be themed to be almost identical to XP.
theres a windows 9x total conversion out there iirc
I don't think it's complete but I have that mostly set up with LXQT on NixOS on my Framework desktop. I love it
Chicago95 theme for XFCE is great
> 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 âdo one job and do it goodâ. 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.
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.
Any chance of an rPi image?
i imagine itâs trivial to install on raspian?
https://edeproject.org/wiki/binarypackages Don't see anything for ARM, but might be as simple as getting the source package and (de)building debs for it.
I like the look of this. It looks like mate, which I presently use. I wonder what the difference is
Well, FLTK instead of GTK is a big one. Also, EDE more closely mimics the Win98 Explorer rather than GNOME. EDE is also lighter weight.
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