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Basically title, with System76 moving from gnome to their new rust built COSMIC environment what are your thoughts?

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I'm really in support of everything that System76 is doing. Outside of Framework I think they're one of the more interesting enthusiast projects. I think what makes me particularly excited for Cosmic is that it will be under the GPL3 license, and that it will use GTK.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Likewise! Funny enough, my daily driver is a Framework laptop with Pop!_OS.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Me too, it's a great combo with a few tweaks (for fingerprint support and power)!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I've implemented the fingerprint tweak among others, but what is this power tweak you speak of? \⁠(⁠◎⁠o⁠◎⁠)↗

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

It will not be using GTK for first party applets and applications. COSMIC is being built with libcosmic, which is a cosmic-themed widget library built on top of iced. The design team also has a collaboration with Slint so that Slint can be used to make applications with the same look and feel as libcosmic.