Have you ever had interest or curiousity of running another “desktop environment” on SUSE, apart from KDE, Gnome and XFCE. There is a nice article writen by Scott M.Morris on Novell’s Coolsolution page titled “Enlightenment .17: Here Comes the Eyecandy”, explaining on how to install one on SUSE. It is actually very easy and simple. You just need to add Guru’s repository to your Yast and that’s it.

Being frank, I have never tried running Enlightment on my desktop, though have experience. I prefer to go with XFCE4 when I need light desktop. Since this is so easy to install, I will give it a try, and then later decide which is better for me - XFCE4 or E17. I am not saying bye to KDE or Gnome of course. These are perfect desktops when you want to play games for instance, letting games to have more system resources available, or running very old or low spec notebook. Though I am still not quite sure how it compares to XFCE4 in terms of system resources for it to run smoothly. Any words on this? If you have experience with this desktop, let me know your thoughts.

Just remember that E17 is still under heavy development and not everything works as expected, but it is a beautifully designed desktop with plenty of eye candy.

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