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

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

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Rust wouldn't necessarily make it more responsive. It is more oriented towards safety and robustness.

Cosmic might be more responsive / efficient due to the fact that it's a new development and they can choose to implement things better and not carry old baggage, but that's about it. Rust doesn't have much say in it.

Edit: Although, if they are moving away from JavaScript in Gnome as their shell language to pure Rust in Cosmic, then you would probably see some responsiveness / efficiency gains, yes.