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Enlightenment was such a cool window manager. Shame the development pace was (and still is) slow and it never really took off.
I think even Samsung was funding it for a while. They took a long time building libraries supporting rendering on X11 what I remember. I used the 0.16.x version with my 1GHz Athlon years ago, it was very cool.
I believe they actually adopted it for their Tizen OS, unless I completely invented that memory.
Is there even someone left?
I only tried it around 2008 or so and it was extremely slow paced back then while looking like the interface from a sci-fi movie.
There are still some people doing commits but I think the original devs have moved on.
it's definitely progressed a lot since 2008, but the last couple of years have been extremely slow
You don't update the perfection
having support for the newer wayland protocols in the wayland session wouldn't hurt