Install Enlightenment 17 in Ubuntu 12.10/12.04/11.10/Linux Mint 14/13/12 (New Release)

Install Enlightenment Desktop in Ubuntu 12.10 Quantal/Ubuntu 12.04/Ubuntu 11.10/Linux Mint 14/13/12 (New Release)

Enlightenment is not just a window manager for Linux/X11 and others, but also a whole suite of libraries to help you create beautiful user interfaces with much less work than doing it the old fashioned way and fighting with traditional toolkits, not to mention a traditional window manager. It covers uses from small mobile devices like phones all the way to powerful multi-core desktops (which are the primary development environment).

These provide both a semi-traditional toolkit set in Elementary as well as the object canvas (Evas) and powerful abstracted objects (Edje) that you can combine, mix and match, even layer on top of each other with alpha channels and events in-tact. It has 3D transformations for all objects and more.

To install E17 Desktop in Ubuntu/Linux Mint open Terminal (Press Ctrl+Alt+T) and copy the following commands in the Terminal:

• sudo add-apt-repository ppa:hannes-janetzek/enlightenment-svn
• sudo apt-get update
• sudo apt-get install e17

Now Logout and Choose Enlightenment from Gear.

Now Setup Shelf

Right Click on Shelf/Panel and Select Settings

In Size Setting > Untick "Shrink to Content Width" and select size "32 pixels"

In Style Setting > Choose Style

Now you can move icons/items from panel by select option from right click.

Desktop is Ready

To Uninstall Enlightenment Desktop Enter following command in Terminal:

• sudo apt-get remove e17 e17-data libecore* libedbus1 libedje-bin libedje1 libeet1 libefreet1 libembryo1 libeina1 libevas* libembryo-bin
• sudo apt-get purge e17 e17-data libecore* libedbus1 libedje-bin libedje1 libeet1 libefreet1 libembryo1 libeina1 libevas* libembryo-bin

That's it, Enjoy

Source: Enlightenment Launchpad