cosmic-epoch

https://github.com/pop-os/cosmic-epoch/issues/2851 I was a big fan of popos (for a long time) and upgraded to the latest rust based one. However my firefox stopped working (no response for toolbar menu items and buttons). The work around is to reset your display. After having to do this 5+ times a day (for months), I said sod it and went to ubuntu 22. Sad. note: failed only my intel nuc, but not on thinkpad x1 carbon.

I’ve been using COSMIC on a spare laptop, and enjoying it, but I’m stuck on 22.04 until their Iced rebase finishes and have IME working. [1] Making a new DE plus compositor is a lot of work, but I do hope it works well for the Pop_OS developers. [1] https://github.com/pop-os/cosmic-epoch/issues/2174

Was looking forward to this for a long time as I think Linux could do with a clean break from the Legacy built around Gnome/KDE/X11. But it's taking so long to get to release my main concern is now that a small company doesn't have the dev resources to take on maintaining a DE by themselves and haven't been successful in attracting a dev community to help pick up the slack. I'm now leaning towards the Hyprland/Omarchy approach of starting with a curated blank slate that can be easily themed, customized and extended to suit where I wouldn't have to rely on big drop releases of a single organization for any missing/preferred functionality. Even at its young age Omarchy has some how managed to attract 134/782 open/closed PRs [1] vs 6/90 for CosmicDE (since 2022) [2] which IMO speaks to the approachability and hackability of a scriptable DE a

I recently switched my (small) company over to using just files within our codebases and it's been going over very well thus far. We're building a set of apps that need to run on Linux, MacOS, and Windows so having a consistent solution for each is better than shell scripting and I personally have never felt great about make and it's weirdness. It also helps that we have a pretty big monorepo so that anyone can bounce from one app to another and `just run` to use any of them, no matter the platform. Either way the justification for me came from COSMIC[0]. [0] https://github.com/pop-os/cosmic-epoch/blob/master/justfile

Here’s the part that explains it from the GitHub page (https://github.com/pop-os/cosmic-epoch): Read-Only Filesystem: If you're not on an immutable distro you may notice that /usr/ and /opt/ are read-only. this is caused by systemd-sysext being enabled, when you are done testing you can disable systemd-sysext (sudo systemctl disable --now systemd-sysext) It is thus no proper method for long term deployment. It makes sense to me but it definitely caught me off-guard.

There's some instructions on their GitHub page that should point you in the right direction: https://github.com/pop-os/cosmic-epoch

It isn't... You can see this in an open source JavaScript implementation of kinetic scrolling by Apple called PastryKit[3] using a magic number momentum * 0.9. The problem is, that on modern Linux environments, there is no clear responsibility for where scroll handling code belongs. Especially Kinetic / Inertial scrolling is handled way different than in macOS. There is libinput (for handling and redirecting input events) There is the display server There is the compositor There is the window manager There is the app layer (every App, like Firefox, Gimp, Currently kinetic scrolling is implemented on the App layer, every app has to handle the scrolling events manually to provide kinetic scrolling. This is not the case in macOS... the kinetic scrolling / rubber banding is handled within the OS. In my opinion, the scrolling code could belong

Thank you. I cloned the issue to https://github.com/pop-os/cosmic-epoch/issues/204, hopefully this is the right one...

The redox-os post mentions cosmic desktop, and future wayland support, which may now already be almost implemented? The System76 blog appears to have updates regarding COSMIC DE: https://blog.system76.com/post/the-spirit-of-cosmic-december... Components of Cosmic Desktop Rust-based Desktop Environment: https://github.com/pop-os/cosmic-epoch#components-of-cosmic-... cosmic-comp/src/wayland/handlers https://github.com/pop-os/cosmic-comp/tree/master_jammy/src/...

The public repo for the new version of Cosmic: https://github.com/pop-os/cosmic-epoch

The repo readme has instructions for installing test builds. https://github.com/pop-os/cosmic-epoch

I will use them, at least for a while, when their currently in development Rust desktop env is out. Super curious how that pans out (as traditionally all popular GUI libs are very OO). https://github.com/pop-os/cosmic-epoch https://github.com/pop-os/libcosmic https://github.com/iced-rs/iced

system76 is using it to develop their new cosmic desktop environment for linux. The code is here https://github.com/pop-os/cosmic-epoch We'll see how it starts panning out this year or next.