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9 Elementary is a basic widget set library that is easy to use and is based on
10 EFL. It provides the basic building blocks for creating applications and user
13 For more details about elementary widgets and how to use them kindly refer to
14 the following link for the latest documentation:
16 http://www.enlightenment.org/p.php?p=docs
26 The library you will find in src/lib/ and modules it loads as demos or
27 actual implementations in src/modules/. The library depends on at
28 least on default theme that is built in data/themes/ and some default
29 config installed from config/.
33 The default theme is large and includes data for every widget and then
34 some. The Theme includes some images that are creative-commons
35 licensed (see COPYING.images) and is otherwise considered LGPL as well
40 There is a full test app in src/bin/ and you will find its main source
41 as test.c with every test split into test_*.c files. This should serve
42 as a general tester for Elementary as well as example code on writing
43 UIs with Elementary. Run this app (once installed) with elementary_test.
45 **Configuration App:**
47 A simple rough configuration tool is provided called
48 elementary_config. This tool allows you to play with some basic
49 configuration of elementary and it saves your config in your home
50 directory in ~/.elementary as well as applying it to all Elementary
51 using applications. Themes are normally looked for in
52 ~/.elementary/themes and the system elementary data dir
53 (PREFIX/share/elementary/themes/).
56 COMPILING AND INSTALLING
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63 If you have doxygen, then you can build documentation with:
67 You will find documentation in the doc/ directory.
73 You likely don't need static libraries most of the time so you can
78 You may want to change the install prefix for EFL with:
80 --prefix=/path/to/prefix
82 There are also examples in src/examples/ as well. To compile examples
83 use this option to configure:
85 --enable-build-examples
87 Also you may wish to install the examples, then use:
89 --enable-install-examples
95 Elementary requires EFL to be installed and available first.
101 Configuration for a user is normally stored in ~/.elementary/config,
102 but if this does not exist, the system configuration in
103 PREFIX/share/elementary/config is used instead. Overriding either of
104 these is per-screen or per-virtual-desktop configuration that may be
105 stored on the root window as a property in X11 or via appropriate
106 other protocols depending on display system.
108 By default the profile.cfg file contains a config key that indicates
109 the name of the profile to use. See config/Makefile.am as to how to
110 generate this. The directories each contain per-profile configuration.
111 The cfg files are files generated by Eet and can be generated from
112 text. See the above Makefile.am