By
default,
Enlightenment pops up with
annoying help
windows whenever you stop moving the
cursor for a few seconds. Although it is easy to
disable this, it is just
idiotic to put this as the default, as the windows that pop up even pop up when the
cursor is just over the
desktop, and the window takes up a large part of the
screen.
It
automatically runs it's own
Esound daemon when starting, even if you have
Enlightenment sounds
disabled. There isn't any way to easily stop it from doing that with a command line option.
Enlightenment takes
much longer to load than most
other popular
window managers. While many load in less than a
second, Enlightenment can nearly to a
minute to load on some
computers.
In addition to loading slowly, the
graphical effects of most of Enlightenment and most of it's
themes are so
intensive that the whole
window manager runs much
slower than others. Running Enlightenment without delays between switching
workspaces requires a very
fast computer.
I'd like to mention that
Enlightenment is fine for people who have never used
Linux or
X before, and don't want to spend any time learning how to use a different
window manager. Also, Enlightenment is mostly fine for people with very fast computers, or those who value cool looking
themes above
everything else.