I have already switched from Fluxbox to Enlightenment on my reborn Gentoo Laptop. Not because there was anything wrong with Fluxbox, but I began to fondly remember all the nifty features that Enlightenment had. For a lighter weight, simple WindowManager, I’d still think Fluxbox would be a good choice.
I’m using aterm for an X-terminal, and all I can say is that aterm rocks. The only things I miss from gnome-terminal are tabs and finer control over shading for window transparency.
Since I was just speaking about Vista… soon you’ll probably be seeing a lot of nifty screenshots of Vista with translucent window-borders. That’s very nice, actually. It’s one of the things that I rather liked about Enlightenment (old screenshot).
Still, I am keeping in mind that the last time I used Enlightenment, I eventually wound up switching to Gnome again. The key is getting all the apps that I need, or want to use regularly, working exactly the way I like them. We’ll see if it will work out.
