mmstick76

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by mmstick76 9mo ago
It wasn't that long of a delay. Just a couple months. Also, keep in mind that this was the first release of COSMIC. Even if it had hypothetically taken an extra six months, that does not set the basis for a release cadence. There will
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by mmstick76 9mo ago
GTK3, GTK4, and libadwaita applications do look native in COSMIC. In COSMIC Settings, navigate to Desktop > Appearance > Icons and toolkit theming. Or search "toolkit" and it will be a top result. In the context drawer that
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Floss Weekly: Building the Rust Desktop with Cosmic [video](youtube.com)
2 points by mmstick76 2y ago|0 comments
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by mmstick76 2y ago
I'd recommend everyone to try out `cosmic-store` when they get a chance. Whether you use COSMIC or not, it's fully functional with any desktop environment. It's packaged by default in Pop!_OS 22.04, available in Fedora 40 via
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by mmstick76 2y ago
COSMIC is as similar to GNOME as KDE is similar to GNOME. There is barely any similarity at all.
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by mmstick76 2y ago
Technically, COSMIC uses libcosmic rather than iced. It is a custom toolkit based on a modified version of iced.
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by mmstick76 2y ago
What do you think a desktop environment is? Name one desktop environment that does not have its own file manager or terminal. Name and shame the platform and toolkit that lacks these basic necessities.
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by mmstick76 2y ago
There are dozens of GUI libraries and platform toolkits available to both Mac and Windows. In fact, there are plenty of GTK and Qt applications floating around on these platforms. As well as a lot of applications using custom frameworks. Th
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by mmstick76 2y ago
Have you never heard of tiling window management? You do realize that tiling window managers are used on multi-display setups with multiple 4K displays, right? Windows have to be responsive to very narrow widths to be comfortable for use in
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by mmstick76 2y ago
Third party developers have access to the same APIs that COSMIC applets and applications use. It's not possible for a crate to prevent use of public APIs based on who is importing the crate.
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by mmstick76 2y ago
libadwaita/GTK4 is to GNOME what libcosmic is to COSMIC. COSMIC has no need for an alternative to GLib or GIO. Rust's standard library, the futures crates, and tokio are more than sufficient for handling I/O and asynchronous
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by mmstick76 2y ago
This is not true, and I do not know what gave you that impression. What you're describing is a side effect of using systemd-sysext, but I do not know why you would be using that.
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by mmstick76 3y ago
Interface density is configurable
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by mmstick76 3y ago
Where the elementary appcenter needs 900 MB, and KDE Discover needs 600 MB, the COSMIC Store needs only 60 MB. The COSMIC Store uses serde to serialize package metadata into a bitcode format, which uses significantly less memory and enables
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by mmstick76 3y ago
It's possible to install the `cosmic-store`, but it will be some time before it's ready to replace the elementary appcenter.
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by mmstick76 3y ago
That repository is a gnome-shell extension, unrelated to cosmic-epoch.
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by mmstick76 3y ago
VRR, fractional scaling, and 10-bit color depth is already supported. HDR metadata is not yet supported. These will be refined before the final release.
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by mmstick76 3y ago
You could purchase a Launch keyboard or Nebula case. - https://system76.com/components - https://system76.com/accessories/launch
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by mmstick76 3y ago
See also our first four COSMIC applications with the default dark and light themes[0]: a terminal, file manager, text editor, and settings application. SavvyNik also demoed a slightly older build of these applications in a recent video toda
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by mmstick76 3y ago
Read the instructions from the pop-os/cosmic-epoch repository.
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by mmstick76 3y ago
That's just not how software development works. The quality of the software depends on the people who own the development of that software, and the technologies they used to build that software. You're advocating that COSMIC shoul
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by mmstick76 3y ago
The desktop environment plays a major role in application defaults. Can you imagine installing GNOME and getting Kate as the text editor, bundled with all of its KF5 libraries? Or installing KDE and getting GNOME Text Editor bundled with li
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by mmstick76 3y ago
VS Code is in an entirely separate category. This is a text editor, not an extensible code editor.
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by mmstick76 3y ago
A desktop environment is more than a window manager. Can't remember installing a DE and not having a platform default text editor included as a core application.
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by mmstick76 3y ago
The text editor is being developed solely by our principal engineer thus far. Application updates may be the most visually interesting thing to share in an update, but it's far from the only thing being worked on. A default text editor
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by mmstick76 3y ago
Lots of them. I've read a lot of comments from the Rust community that they'd love to build native applications in Rust. This will be their moment to make something as C programmers had with GNOME, and C++ programmers had with KDE
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by mmstick76 3y ago
It's pronounced "Pop OS", or simply "Pop".
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by mmstick76 3y ago
It's been only a little more than a year since it was started. I don't know anyone who's able to announce the start of development of a new DE, and then have it released in less than a year.
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by mmstick76 3y ago
Perfect. I have no issues using it from my RTX desktop, or RTX hybrid graphics laptop.
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by mmstick76 3y ago
The former and the later, based on whether the application supports it or not.

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