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Why are the polish kicking so much Foss ass in the past years?
tldr; it's the filenames again
Kamila traced the freeze back to the way E16 handled overly long file names.
I wouldn't call a de bug a linux bug. Enlightenment is so niche at this point I don't think anyone would have even found the bug if not for her.
After digging through the codebase, Kamila traced the freeze back to the way E16 handled overly long file names. When a window title was too long and needed to be truncated, the algorithm responsible for doing so had no iteration limit. So it would spin indefinitely, locking up the desktop entirely.
Ah, no wonder it went unfixed for so long, most people would just rename stuff and carry on
Okay, not a Linux bug in the kernel, but one that has existed in the Enlightenment window manager E16 since 2006
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You could say she added some Polish to it.
I'll see myself out.
She Polish-ed it off.
30-some years ago while driving around town, one of my buddies sees a car wash sign and completely seriously is like "What the hell is a car Polish?" We all just about died from laughter and still bring it up regularly.
Please sign my T-shirt!!!!!
I imagine her being annoyed as a baby but being taken from the computer by her parents. Thus a lifelong resentment of computers and Linux had formed until she finally was able to overcome it and fix the bug.
The foss equivalent of getting hired to fix a bug and resign immediately
Not kernel
Happy cake day!
I guess if the account is created today it's still a cake day !
Enlightenment was always intriguing to me but man was it buggy and a hog on my “i found this lil guy in a skid” class computers. Has it gotten better ?
Legend
I can’t scroll this site without getting floating popups for Comcast in Spanish. It’s so annoying having to turn on Adblock for the shit tier sites
Adblock is always on. Why would you have it off by default?
Man, i remember when I first manged to properly install enlightenment on SUSE. I knew almost nothing about linux. It was just pure trial and error from dependencies to proper drivers. I felt so proud when I finally got it working.
Anyone know what that theme is? https://itsfoss.com/content/images/size/w1000/2026/04/desktop-e16-2.png
and if there's a KDE equivalent...
It's WashedBlue: https://iczelia.net/about/#my-setup
Attempting to seduce me romantically will end poorly for you. Attempting to convince me to work on your blockchain or webdev projects will end even worse.
Based
I didn't, but I spent 5 minutes to research, and it's the BlueSteel theme.
It isn't available on KDE.