Achieving nirvana: Enlightenment 0.28 hits the desktop

Fresh on the desktop this week is a new version of Enlightenment as well the continuation of noughties hero KDE 3, the Trinity Desktop Environment, for those who prefer things a little old school.

Enlightenment version 0.28 is the latest release of one of the older Linux graphical environments, which first appeared in 1997. Version 0.28 arrives nearly two years after the previous release – we reported on Enlightement 0.27 in January 2025. If you're not familiar with this venerable window manager, often referred to as just E, we refer you back to that article, which also explains Enlightenment's slightly strange version numbering scheme.

Last time around we noted that its single-line release notes really didn't give us much to write about. The development team has made up for it this time, with some 68 lines of changes. …