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A COSMIC Thanksgiving (blog.system76.com)

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

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Notable changes:

Tracking improvements. For example, if you use the launcher to launch an application and then switch workspaces, it will still launch in the workspace you opened it from;
Supported the ext-session-lock protocol, which authenticates the user and informs the compositor when the session should be unlocked
XDG activation and DBus activation support
work on HDR
Ongoing work to package COSMIC on NixOS: tracking issue

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[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago (24 children)

I've been waiting for this desktop to release patiently. I can't wait to try it. I have one question that I never got to ask anywhere, how is this going to work with the whole Qt/GTK apps? Are things going to look weird like they do on (mostly) Gnome and (sometimes) KDE Plasma?

[–] mmstick 17 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (9 children)

We will attempt to automatically generate themes for common toolkits, but the desktop environment has no control over how the toolkit chooses to render itself or operate.

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

Fair enough. As long as the app goes with the dark/light theme and doesn't look super tiny on hidpi screens, I personally wouldn't really lose sleep over it. Will there be an HIG specific to cosmic for devs who want to make apps for it?

[–] mmstick 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Yes, the libcosmic toolkit automates a decent chunk of the process to building an application with our interface guidelines. If building an application with the cosmic::Application trait. Which includes the header bar, navigation bar, and context drawer.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Thank you for answering all these questions. Last question, do you know when an alpha or a beta will be released? I want to test and help out with reporting. I have a spare laptop that I can use to test.

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