cross-posted from: https://discuss.tchncs.de/post/64896415
For additional context, here’s Brian’s previous blog post about the first preview release of Xfwl4, where he describes his history with Xfce and the sponsorship.
https://www.spurint.org/journal/2026/06/xfwl4s-first-preview-release
Because enlightenment libraries are pure running diarrhea level of utterly horrendous, actually horrifyingly bad code.
There is a super famous “Daily WTF” post from a Samsung employee literally forced to work with Enlightenment libraries (back when Samsung was doing TizenOS) that would be an awesome read, although it’s behind a login gate nowadays.
GNOME’s stuff are actually pretty easy to work with
The internet archive comes to the rescue, here’s a link to the rant.
https://web.archive.org/web/20230317214426/https://what.thedailywtf.com/topic/15001/enlightened