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I've been following the work on COSMIC (though not super actively) and I keep on saying that I like what I'm seeing because, well, I do! The idea of a tiling DE is a very exciting one and COSMIC really has the potential to become a Major Linux DE.
I'm just happy there's a rust DE being written in slint. KDE is nice and all, but it's all C++. No way am I touching that trainwreck of a language again.
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COSMIC is being written in libcosmic, which is based on iced.
I'm confused. Slint says it's working with System76?
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alternative. All first party applications are written natively with our libcosmic toolkit, which is based on iced-rs. We are using a fork of iced though because we needed to implement a custom runtime with the sctk (smithay client toolkit) for COSMIC applet development, but our desktop applications will use the original winit runtime.