About EDE project

EDE (Equinox Desktop Environment) is simple and fast desktop environment with familiar look and feel. EDE uses FLTK toolkit for GUI presentation and UNIX philosophy for it's design.

With UNIX philosophy, EDE splits each component in separate executable entity that do one job and do it good. This makes EDE very easy to alter on user needs or requirements.

EDE is light and fast. It uses C++ carefully yielding fast startup, low memory usage and great portability. Also, we care not only about how EDE runs, but how much time is needed to compile it.

This facts makes EDE a perfect desktop environment for older computers and embedded devices. But, you can use it on your everyday hardware too.

Goals

EDE is not here to compete with KDE or GNOME and their "provide-everything" philosophy. Our goals is to provide desktop environment only, leaving specialized tools and applications outside. For example, why to create yet another browser when Firefox, Seamonkey or Chromium can nicely cooperate with EDE.

Conformance

Until freedesktop.org inititative was started, EDE implemented many common approaches in own way. This is mostly noticeable in 1.x versions.

From 2.0, EDE is trying to closely follows freedesktop.org standards, making it not only cooperative with modern applications, but with other desktop environments too.

License

EDE is licensed under GPL 2.0 license. edelib is licensed under LGPL 2.0 license.