Floating windows, UI implementation, and compositor improvements for the new COSMIC desktop environment.

Notable changes:

  • Tracking improvements. For example, if you use the launcher to launch an application and then switch workspaces, it will still launch in the workspace you opened it from;
  • Supported the ext-session-lock protocol, which authenticates the user and informs the compositor when the session should be unlocked
  • XDG activation and DBus activation support
  • work on HDR
  • Ongoing work to package COSMIC on NixOS: tracking issue
  • penquin@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    I've been waiting for this desktop to release patiently. I can't wait to try it. I have one question that I never got to ask anywhere, how is this going to work with the whole Qt/GTK apps? Are things going to look weird like they do on (mostly) Gnome and (sometimes) KDE Plasma?

    • Chewy@discuss.tchncs.de
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      1 year ago

      Gnome libadwaita apps only change between dark and light mode, which probably can be derived from COSMIC DE's settings quite easily.

      For Qt I'm not sure how it looks by default, but since System76 wants to support multiple toolkits anyway, I guess they'll have a solution ready.

      • penquin@lemm.ee
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        1 year ago

        I truly hope so, because I'm definitely putting this DE on one of my devices.