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# Introduction to the Equinox Desktop Environment

# version 1.0.1.1

Equinox Desktop Environment is small nad powerfull environment for X. It is built on eFLTK (extended FLTK), heavily modified FLTK 2.0 library. Comparing to other desktop environments, Equinox is very fast (even on slow machines), and have low memory footprint. It provide things that every window manager, especially desktop environment should have, like multiple desktops, nice workpanel, wallpapers, theming support, icons, front end for your usualy tasks. Also there is Xft (font anti-aliasing) support, and various GUI effects.
We still try to do EDE better and better.

# Changes

To see changes from previous version, please refer to ChangeLog.

# Ideas, comments, suggestions

Equinox Desktop Environment is still in heavy development. Currently, there is only one active developer and maintainer so if you would like to contribute with fresh ideas, themes, icon packs, documentation, food, coffee, cigars :), use provided forum link or email.

# Installation and bugs

Please refer to INSTALL and README.INSTALL files in your EDE source code directory. If you have problems with installation procedure, please look at config.log file, where errors are logged. If you still find trouble with it, send your questions on http://sourceforge.net/projects/ede forum or at karijes@users.sourceforge.net.
Note that this is very unstabile version, so with your help, comments and suggestions, we will bring it to good and stabile level.

# Licensing

Equinox Desktop Environment is (C) Copyright 2003-2004 by Sanel Zukan. (C) Copyright 2000-2002 Martin Pekar and others. Equinox Desktop Environment is available under the terms of the GNU General Public License. Linux is registred trademark of Linus Torvalds.