System76’s COSMIC desktop environment gets a new lock screen, login screen, tiling applet, and important UI additions.
  • Qkall
    49·
    1 year ago

    Wow mfers really added tiling too… Cosmic has so much hype around it… I wish it the best and hope to check it out.

    • merthyr1831@lemmy.world
      3·
      1 year ago

      Imo for the casual user, pop’s tiling is streets ahead. it has the ability to be powerful and keyboard driven but also intuitive for mouse users

      • ardent_abysm@lemm.ee
        3·
        1 year ago

        Is there any kind of guide for how to configure settings not yet exposed to the gui settings? I have been spending some time in Cosmic after every update. It certainly isn’t unusable, but it is kind of a stretch to consider it ready for daily use for an end user. I have a hard time imaging people at System76 daily driving Cosmic since June without manually changing the configuration files.

        Is there IBus, or similar, integration on the development road map? This is a feature that keeps me from spending more time in Cosmic so far.

  • hottari
    11·
    1 year ago

    Good to know that if I ever get tired of Gnome one day, there’s this.

  • Panda@programming.dev
    5·
    1 year ago

    Just to be clear, this is for POP!_OS, right? And does it automatically update my POP!_OS installation or is it a completely new distro that I’d have to do a clean install for?

    • Michael Murphy (S76)@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      7·
      1 year ago

      The next Pop!_OS release will use COSMIC as its desktop environment instead of GNOME. There will be an upgrade path, same as in previous releases.

    • merthyr1831@lemmy.world
      5·
      1 year ago

      Also, as others haven’t said yet, CosmicDE will be available for other distros if they choose to support it, which will be different to now where your only choice beyond Pop was to rice GNOME yourself.

    • ste_
      2·
      1 year ago

      Probably will be an update and that’s it. They are changing the looks but the OS “core” won’t change

      • Sentau@feddit.de
        4·
        1 year ago

        They are changing the desktop environment. While it should be updated seamlessly, I do wonder how the configuration files, gnome extensions and dependency issues will be handled when updating to cosmic. It may be beneficial to make a fresh install