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COSMIC: The Road to Alpha (blog.system76.com)

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago (2 children)

This sounds really cool. I don't see any documentation for libcosmic. Are you planning to promote it as an alternative toolkit for building desktop apps or do you see it more as an internal tool strictly for COSMIC DE development?

[–] mmstick 6 points 10 months ago (1 children)

As of today, https://pop-os.github.io/libcosmic/cosmic/ is now available.

[–] devfuuu 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

What's the accessibility story for blind users for example?

Is it going to be suitable to use with proper bindings with other languages or it's not an interest at this time or are there plans to support things like that and stability of apis, etc?

[–] mmstick 2 points 10 months ago

We are integrating AccessKit into libcosmic for accessibility support.

If you want to develop applets and/or applications with libcosmic, you must do so with Rust. There are no plans to develop C bindings for libcosmic.

[–] mmstick 3 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

You can generate documentation by running cargo doc and browsing the generated web pages in target/doc. There are also examples in the examples directory of libcosmic, as well as a design demo example which is a WIP.

libcosmic is an alternative toolkit for building desktop applications and layer shell applets. It wouldn't make much sense to build a toolkit only for ourselves. It's the best way to develop layer shell applets for COSMIC, and other Wayland compositors that support the layer shell protocol.