It's a hellscape of misery and suffering.
You left out the best part-- the enlightenment developer starts replying in page five of the comments and gets caught up in a flame war!
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?
Re:Freshmeat.net, 1997-2014 (2014)
by badsectoracula on Monday March 07, 2022 @12:13PM
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That article is wrong on several levels and the author just doesn't seem to understand what is going on. The whole part about how to set up windows is him not understanding that he's working with a retained mode scene graph - something the documentation[0] makes that clear.
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...
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).