Funny Thing When KDE Neon Meets Enlightenment

They say that opengeu is “when gnome meets enlightenment”. Now, what do you get when you put KDE Neon on opengeu?
This week I wanted to install opengeu to resurrect my old laptop. This laptop used to have a Kubuntu system (starting from edgy if IIRC). After Intrepid alpha emerged in the wild, I installed it fresh on the laptop, since I was going crazy about KDE4. Mind you, I have a functional Intrepid, updated to alpha 3 at the moment, and Hardy with KDE Neon on my other laptop. Although there is small problem with the nvidia card, overall it is very much reliable.
I don’t know about you, but I found that Intrepid’s KDE4 is slower (yeahh I know its alpha! but KDE Neon is OK). My poor old laptop with its ancient trident graphic card feld so slow and the rendering problem is dragging the overall perforamance to its feet. So, it was a was mistake to wipe out Hardy and put Intrepid there.
I’ve been hearing good review about enligtenment 17 (e) and decided that instead of just put Hardy back I would give the ‘e’ a spin. I installed a minimal Hardy and the xorg packages to get the X running. Then add up the opengeu repo and install the opengeu-desktop.
Yes, I really like the enligtenment. Small, feels modern but lot of eye candy. But for a full desktop it needs to borrow many programs outside. In the case of opengeu, it borrowed many packages from GNOME and XFCE. So opengeu actually is a mixed desktop, a ‘gado-gado’. If the purpose of opengeu is to have e as the WM then why it also installed metacity, GNOME control center, and co?
I think it is just a logical thing to do to promptly do “sudo apt-get remove –purge gnome-* xfce4-*”.
Then I thought why not install KDE Neon and run it inside ‘e’? I added the KDE Neon repo and install it. Minutes later its all there. I click the desktop, open konqueror, dolphin, konsole and it just feels that they runs perfectly well in enlightenment. It is faster and, because plasma is not running, there is no rendering issue when we click in the desktop.
Satisfied with the results, I then tried to run plasma. And this is what I get..:)

It tempted you to wonder why don’t we have a kickoff like that in the first place?
Now, I am back to KDE Neon fulltime. I have no KDE3, even the libraries, in that laptop, only Hardy+KDE Neon. I don’t know why but my laptop with its KDE4.2 trunk feels snappier, just like it used to.