The Enlightenment Window Manager was big in the late 90's. They're not dead yet. Visit their homepage for more info on what they've been up to all this time.

Lets define some of the components of this system :

DR17

The Enlightenment Window Manager Development Release version 17

EFL

The Enlightenment Foundation Libraries, used by E17 and other apps (build it and they will come).

Sub parts of EFL

EWL

a complete widget library built on all the other components of the EFL

EVAS

provides a highly optimized canvas library

Ecore

provides a simple and modular abstraction interface and advanced event management including timers

EDB

provides a compact database format for intuitive and easy configuration management (including the storing of binaries)

EET

provides an integrated and flexible container that ends the traditions of providing themes in tarballs

Edje

provides a revolutionary library and tool set for completely abstracting application interfaces from their code, including a complex and flexible method of designing interfaces. EWL provides a complete widget library built on all the other components of the EFL

Installation

A Fedora Repository is available at http://optics.csufresno.edu/~kriehn/fedora/repository.html Previously it was available from http://sps.nus.edu.sg/~didierbe/index.html but has been passed long to somebody better able to keep ontop of it.

Since the new repo was down, on my Fedora8 I used:

    wget http://sps.nus.edu.sg/~didierbe/share/dc-f7-yum-repo-1.0-1.fc7.noarch.rpm
    rpm -Uvh dc-f7-yum-repo-1.0-1.fc7.noarch.rpm

    yum -y install ecore-devel edje-devel evas-devel

This didn't seem to work:

    easy_install Cython pyrex python-evas python-edje python-ecore