Locked and Loaded with New Cosmic DE Updates
blog.system76.com
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I was hyped up about Cosmic DE when they announced it but not anymore. Not because anything they've done but because I'm being kind of pessimistic about the linux desktop.
Anyway, now that's not a problem anymore but many other things are not working as expected.
- Shortcuts to switch workspace don't work if you have horizontal workspaces
- The Pop Shop waaay slower than it was to the point sometimes it becomes irresponsive when searching for something
- When I lock the screen it doesn't turn black as it's expected, it stays half awake. At night I have to unplug the external monitors to avoid having them on all night.
These things make me want to throw the computer out of the window. I'll have to look for an alternative once I finish the things I'm working on.
Click "suspend", not "lock" and/or set to suspend after a certain amount of inactivity.
> Shortcuts to switch workspace don't work if you have horizontal workspaces
Pop doesn't really support horizontal workspaces last I checked, you needed an extension and this naturally played hell with the rest of the DE. Maybe Cosmic will fix it? IIRC this is still a Gnome thing.
> - The Pop Shop waaay slower than it was to the point sometimes it becomes irresponsive when searching for something
Never had need for the pop shop, but I wouldn't call the ad hoc app store based on flathub being slow that big of a deal.
> Click "suspend", not "lock" and/or set to suspend after a certain amount of inactivity.
> Pop doesn't really support horizontal workspaces last I checked, you needed an extension and this naturally played hell with the rest of the DE. Maybe Cosmic will fix it? IIRC this is still a Gnome thing.
> Never had need for the pop shop, but I wouldn't call the ad hoc app store based on flathub being slow that big of a deal.
Cosmic is being written in Rust which is cool, but that doesn’t mean it won’t be buggy.
And good timing, I was just digging through some of the older/current-release cosmic code to hack the light/dark theming settings panel to have a toggle for “change at sunset”.
I don’t suppose that’s been added to the new Rust Cosmic DE yet, but one can hope.
> In Pop!_OS 22.04 LTS, you can scale your resolution by 200%, 300%, or 400% to make these elements easier to see. However, you can also toggle the “Fractional Scaling” feature in the Displays settings for access to scaling options in 25% increments (125%, 150%, 175%, etc.). This past month, fractional scaling functionality was implemented into COSMIC DE as well.
https://blog.system76.com/post/cosmic-skies-of-a-colorado-ju...
On a completely unrelated note, I am not a GUI/frontend guy, so that interactive Figma blew my mind. No idea it worked like that, I thought it was just for sketching out layouts.
Looking forward to where they take the whole code gen aspect too. It seems a little half baked right now (or at least, our legacy designs aren't really set up to take advantage of it) but the idea of using all of the colours and low-level components referenced (rather than hard-coded) and assembled into high-level components or even views would be a game changer.
In May of this year, System76 announced that Cosmic DE would be released in 2024, possibly to be included in the next LTS version of Pop!_OS.
> As we develop COSMIC DE for its 2024 release, Pop!_OS 22.04 LTS will continue to receive updates, such as the recently released system76-scheduler-2.0. Development efforts will be focused on COSMIC DE in lieu of 23.04 and 23.10.
Cosmic has been so hyped, at this point if it delivers on a tenth of the hype it'll be incredible.
What other "in progress" foss project has had anywhere near this level of hn coverage?
Off the top of my head I'd say Deno was a lot more hyped when it was "in progress".
Either way, looks like a cool project? I don't quite get the pitch yet, but sure, looks cool
As far as something of this scope, I'm not sure. I think many of us are excited because among full featured DE's we've been stuck with Gnome and KDE so long, it's nice to see something new.
* That's an obvious personal bias as I just started dabbling in Iced (to try my hand at an ATC sim) and while it's very cool (Elm inspired) the documentation is pretty much the opposite.