Cosmic Desktop Close to Alpha Release, Adds Compositor Multi-Threading

> ambient noise applet, inspired by Blanket

When I said I wanted a desktop environment that could put me to sleep, I meant I liked boring software ... and not something that would literally put me to sleep!

That said, I am looking forward to the day it reaches beta. Their modifications to GNOME were promising. Now that they are working on something that is their own, I am hoping they will get rid of the stuff in GNOME that rubbed me the wrong way.

looking forward to trying this out but there's been a few odd decisions made so far that make me wonder about it's UX.

eg: splitting the "system tray" so that Bluetooth is in the top left and volume is in the top right. I bounce between Bluetooth speakers and a headset often, so I frequently find myself using (or at least checking) both menus in quick succession.

Output switching should be done in the audio menu. If you have to touch the Bluetooth settings after the initial pairing something is wrong.

What I’m hoping for is something less “modern” and more desktop oriented than gnome and less complex and fancy than kde with a fast, no bullshit app launcher and doc search, mostly keyboard accessible.