Today on Slashdot I read about the new release of Enlightenment, DR16.7.1. I have used Enlightenment in the past and it looks amazing. Check the Enlightenment website for screenshots.

For installation I had to recompile the source RPM, since a binary RPM was only available for Fecore Core 2, and I am still running Fedora Core 1. Recompiling was easy after installing some of the missing prerequisites (Imlib2, Imlib2-devel, freetype-devel, XFree86-devel, esound-devel)

For KDE integration with Enlightenment, I needed two settings. In my .bash_profile, I set:
export KDEWM=/usr/bin/enlightenment

Then, I created this file: ~/.kde/Autostart/killkdesktop containing:
#!/bin/bash

kill `ps -ef | grep "kdeinit: [k]desktop" | awk '{ print $2 }'`
This will kill the kdesktop and handover the handling of the desktop to enlightenment.