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  • They dix not build the compositor from scratch, they built it on top of smithay, a library similar to wlroots but written in Rust.

    I don’t know if you’ve actually tried to use GTK or QT, but it’s insanely painful. There is a reason almost all apps are written in Electron. Native GUI toolkits suck. If they had used GTK they would have still had an outdated and hard to maintain toolkit, and to deal with Gnome politics. Using GTK was actually the initial idea.

    If we want Linux Desktop to succeed, at some point we have to build tools that people want to use. I’m glad they’re doing it.













  • teolan@lemmy.worldtoLinuxCOSMIC Store Prototype
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    3 months ago

    I wasn’t thinking about applets but more about full-blown libcosmic applications.

    Gnome Circle bas a lot of very simple apps that do just 1 thing and weight a couple MB each at worst.

    With iced such an ecosystem would be at 20MB per app, so simple " don’t 1 thing and do it right" apps would be less scalable. And I doubt you would want to have all of gnome circle as a multicall binary.