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COSMIC lock screen will be customizable with themes (fosstodon.org)

submitted 1 year ago by mmstick to c/[email protected]

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ndlug.org/post/280126

Jeremy Soller shares some examples of the COSMIC lock screen that Pop!_OS is working on.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Is the DE still reliant on GTK? Will there be thumbnails in the filepicker?

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The DE is not reliant on Gtk, it uses Iced, which is fully written in Rust. And the Gtk file picker also has thumbnails now.

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

Have the cosmic devs said if their file picker portal will support thumbnails?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They haven't created the file chooser portals yet. But I saw a comment from mmstick a few months ago on reddit that he said it will support it. I mean it's a simple basic- feature, gnome could've had it if they cared.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

Gnome has it now! It only took 20 years which makes it so much better to see it in action. Thanks to the person who made that contribution!

[–] mmstick 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

We have been developing our own toolkit, libcosmic, which is being used for everything. From the lock screen, compositor, applets for the desktop, and the applications themselves. There is an examples directory for third party developers to learn hope to build their own applets and applications with.

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

Which display manager do you guys plan to use?

[–] mmstick 4 points 1 year ago

You're looking at it.