Install Enlightenment Desktop in Ubuntu/Linux Mint

Install Enlightenment Desktop in Ubuntu 12.04/11.10/11.04/10.10/10.04/Linux Mint

Enlightenment is not just a window manager for Linux/X11 and others, but also a whole suite of libraries to help you create beautiful user interfaces with much less work than doing it the old fashioned way and fighting with traditional toolkits, not to mention a traditional window manager. It covers uses from small mobile devices like phones all the way to powerful multi-core desktops (which are the primary development environment).

These provide both a semi-traditional toolkit set in Elementary as well as the object canvas (Evas) and powerful abstracted objects (Edje) that you can combine, mix and match, even layer on top of each other with alpha channels and events in-tact. It has 3D transformations for all objects and more.

To install E17 Desktop in Ubuntu/Linux Mint open Terminal (Press Ctrl+Alt+T) and copy the following commands in the Terminal:

Terminal Commands:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:hannes-janetzek/enlightenment-svn
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install e17

Now Logout and Choose Enlightenment from Gear.

Now Setup Shelf

Right Click on Shelf/Panel and Select Settings

In Size Setting > Untick "Shrink to Content Width" and select size "32 pixels"

In Style Setting > Choose Style

Now you can move icons/items from panel by select option from right click.

Desktop is Ready

To Uninstall Enlightenment Desktop Enter following command in Terminal:

Terminal Commands:
sudo apt-get remove e17 e17-data libecore* libedbus1 libedje-bin libedje1 libeet1 libefreet1 libembryo1 libeina1 libevas* libembryo-bin
sudo apt-get purge e17 e17-data libecore* libedbus1 libedje-bin libedje1 libeet1 libefreet1 libembryo1 libeina1 libevas* libembryo-bin

That's it

Source: Enlightenment Launchpad