Carsten Haitzler has announced a new version of the Enlightenment desktop shell.

Enlightenment DR 0.24.0 Release

Enlightenment was launched in the 1990s by Carsten "Rasterman" Haitzler as an easy to use Window Manager (WM) for X11. Since then it has expanded to include the one million lines of C code that form the Enlightenment Foundation Libraries (EFL) and a diverse set of applications. There's a vibrant and active community of developers and users who work on and use the code every day.

Highlights:

• New and improved shot module with editor and cropper
• Reduced number of setuid tools (merged many into single system tool)
• External monitor backlight and brightness controls via (lib)ddctil
• Improved resolution of EFM thumbnails to 256×256 by default
• New and improved crash handling guru meditation
• Restarts are now seamless with fade in and out and zero glitches
• Wallpaper import generates multiple resolutions for better efficiency
• Regularly malloc_trim if available to keep mem down
• All restarts are now handled by enlightenment_start, not e itself
• Enforce pointer lock to screen in X to stop pointer out-of-bounds
• Pager plain is gone - use the regular “miniature preview” pager
• Music control auto-runs your selected media player if not there
• Handle exception for steam games to find the right desktop file
• Polkit auth agent support as new core module - no extra daemons
• Drop comp fast effects - Should be edje transition factor + theme tags
• Easier config of specific desktop wallpaper straight from pager
• Startup should be smoother with IO prefetch thread
• New special blanking timeout for when locked that can be shorter
• Bluez4 gone now as Bluez5 is done and working fine
• Down to zero outstanding coverity issues
• The usual batches of bug fixes and minor improvements

Enlightenment DR 0.24.0 Release