You're so right that the internet seemed so full of possibilities.
It's evolved into more of a desktop now that plain window managers aren't something people usually think of. It's still got great eye candy, though I miss some of the old themes I used to use.
The Enlightenment libraries were used in Samsung's Tizen OS too - hopefully they got some consultancy money out of that (or similar).
https://what.thedailywtf.com/topic/15001/enlightened/243?lan...
It really does seem like the author of the article didn't read the docs, though. E.g., he states that Genlist "in essence is a list widget with some items." But according to the docs the "simple list" widget is the tool that fits that definition. Genlist is way more complex and apparently meant to handle situations with a large number of total items. Whether reallocation is an appropriate approach to get that complexity I don't know. But if it's the wrong tool for the job, who cares?
Ironically you are more likely to see such an approach in modern GUI toolkits than when EFL was written.
[0] https://docs.tizen.org/application/native/guides/ui/efl/grap...
The closest equivalent is probably tweaking memory on DOS to get that new game to run, but I just got to see the tail end of that era.
Mandatory xkcd: https://xkcd.com/963/
> The closest equivalent is probably tweaking memory on DOS to get that new game to run, but I just got to see the tail end of that era.
> Mandatory xkcd: https://xkcd.com/963/
Oh the times before it was xorg. And even before that, when for a proper modular accelerated X you had to pay or use X build for your graphic card. I remember buying new graphic card just to use a new modular XFree86(no drivers for my old one).
Now everything is so easy...
For a long, long time I was happy to even get XFree86 and later Xorg to work without 3D acceleration. By the time I started to care, helpful people from the Internet had taken care of most of the revolting details.
And when proper 3D acceleration became important (compiz was just gorgeous), vendors were reasonably happy to supply drivers for their GPUs.
In essence, though, I agree, Linux-on-the-desktop has gotten so much more easy over the past ~20 years.
I actually met my first wife through Everything2. At the risk of further exposing who I am, I even hosted the site at the University of Michigan Business School's little datacentre for a while. Good times!