Solved Obsolete desktop question

[garyn]

A L-O-N-G time ago I worked in a RAID development lab and they supported all flavors of Linux. Part of my job in the lab was testing several flavors of Linux for their hardware compatibility.

One desktop GUI was a simple mostly blank screen that displayed a canned image with only several horizontal lines across the screen without a panel / task bar or icons on the screen at all. When the mouse cursor passed over one of the thin lines several icons appeared on each line which were grouped by functions like utilities, communications, network, open programs etc.

I have to say it was brilliant and I simply cannot remember the name of the desktop. There was no clutter just a clean desktop and I "think" it was called "Enlightenment" but I just checked their site and what Enlightenment has is just another Windows / Cinnamon look alike.

So, does anyone know what desktop manager I described?

 

[dos2unix]

It's still around, but not many distro's support it. I dont think it has wayland support, but I could be wrong??

Bodhi Linux, MX Moksha and AV Linux 25 all support enlightenment, an interesting fact - this is older than KDE or Gnome.

There was a Chinese distro called "Deepin".
It had it's own desktop called "DDE". It was available on many other distro's for a long time.
(I'll try to avoid politics here, but...)
It seems some questionable code was found in DDE, and almost all US and European distros have since discontinued
it as a desktop option, although it seems you can still download build your own.

 

[garyn]

Thanks! Reading the Wiki it claims Enlightenment supports Wayland.