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.
The only thing I am kind of skeptical about Cosmic is how it will handle other apps like KDE or GNOME apps, especially the Libadwaita ones. I have one question, will it be possible to kind of make them fit in the system or the other way around, make the system look like it has a libadwaita look? I just really love some consistency
This is interesting. I’m a window manager user, but currently, the Wayland Display Managers suck. I’m using sddm but I don’t like it.
I’m guessing that this one will be modular enough to be installed without the whole Cosmic DE? It seems interesting.
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cosmic-greeterpackage is already installable today. It will work on any system that hasgreetdavailable. The Appearance panel in COSMIC Settings is not yet merged, but it is in theappearancestaging branch.
Is the DE still reliant on GTK? Will there be thumbnails in the filepicker?
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.
Have the cosmic devs said if their file picker portal will support thumbnails?
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.
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!
Looks great! I can’t wait, cosmic is already my favorite out of the box DE by a long shot
How do you run it? I admit I haven’t dug too deep, but I haven’t seen a release post. I’ve only seen Dev blog posts about the work being done.
Here are instructions for installing the current state of Cosmic https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=3ZCCVRbYYRM
It is in a very pre-alpha state. The promoted demonstrations are being made by people developing Cosmic, so have a deep knowledge of how to configure it manually, or are using features that haven’t been merged into the currently distributed package.
Apparently, some people that work at System76 are daily driving Cosmic, but they must be using a different configuration than what is part of the shipped package. As is, I find it basically a demo that is functional enough to attempt using for more than 5 minutes, but giving up not long after.
Man that’s so exciting, I despise how boring the gnome lock screen is. The default gray background just looks so bland.
I can’t wait for Cosmic. I might even make the switch when it hits alpha, I’ve had quite enough of Gnome lately.
I completely missed that system76 launched COSMIC already lol
