[ Thanks to renai43
for this link. ]
“Ever since Time Began, GNOME and Enlightenment have been
associated. GNOME has provided the mainstay of the GNOME
environment, providing a file manager much like Microsoft’s
Explorer, a panel in which were hosted a configurable menubar,
launcher icons, applets such as clocks and mp3 controllers, and
open applications. The GNOME folks also collect together a variety
of useful desktop applications in order to provide a standard
environment. For example, Abiword is now included as part of GNOME
Office, although previously (pre the GNOME 1.2 release) it
wasn’t.”
“Enlightenment took care of the drawing of windows – it is in
fact a window manager. It didn’t provide the same sort of tools
that GNOME did, but instead complimented the GNOME environment by
adding options to configure the windows that drove the GNOME
universe.”
“However, two recent releases from both parties have clearly
indicated that both teams of developers have decided to part
company, as it were, and head off in separate development
paths.“