Enlightenment

Enlightenment is a light weight and eye candy desktop environment.

Installation
Recommend are the following local USE flags as sane default to be able to auto mount removable devices, etc. :

If you don't want to undergo the painful manual installation of each package, you'd better use sets. One can add these two sets to to ease merging and rebuilding the packages:

And now one can finish the installation with:

Tips and Tricks
There are two sets to avoid unnecessary issues implied by the order of merging. Now one can start E17 desktop environment by launching the default display manager.

Or else, one can use simple ~/.{xinitrc,bash_log{in,out}} or zsh version `~/.zlog{in,out}' scheme to avoid unnecessary extra packages to just be able to log into your session. And do not forget to install NetworkManager and to be able to switch to different networks easily because, last time I've checked,  did not work at all despite that there's a E17 module for it.

A zsh version could be used instead.

The previous can be used to login into an E17 session easily without needing any middle man like depending on tty or console used to log in.

Additional applications
You may need a good and light weight terminal emulator: rxvt-unicode, you may consider installing a perl module for copy/paste and url handling dev-perl/perl-URxvt.

You may need a burning application:, or a KDE alternative.

You may need a document viewer: you can try the excellent or.

You may need color profile application:, or even better.

You may try or.

You may need a calculator:, or.

You may need a graphical file manager: try plus :0 for automount or  plus  for automount because the file manager module is not that usable/practicable.

instead of the following for automount support.

For a complete office suite do no hesitate to merge moloch or the binary package if it's too much for you machine.

Tired of entering again and again your wifi pass and so on? You may look at or enable gnome-keyring USE flag globally ( has that USE flag for example).

etc.