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In-progress COSMIC apps: terminal, file manager, text editor, and settings (fosstodon.org)

submitted 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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COSMIC is a Wayland desktop environment for Linux that is written in Rust with Smithay and Iced. COSMIC applications are developed with the libcosmic platform toolkit, which is based on iced. They are cross-platform and supported on Windows, Mac, and Redox OS in addition to Linux.

As COSMIC nears its alpha release in Q1 of 2024, we have thus far developed a terminal, file manager, and text editor for our desktop environment within the last few months.

See cosmic-epoch for instructions on building and installing COSMIC.

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[+] [email protected] -6 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Can somebody explain to me, why we need another terminal, file manager, text editor and such? Just to call them all "cosmic apps"? Also who the fuck is going to use any of this on windows or even macOS?? Why waste manpower on this cross-platform compatibility?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

It's been explained 100 times ad nauseam over the last two years. Go read comments from previous months' updates if you want to catch up.

As for cross-platform compatibility, this should not come as a surprise because everything is written in Rust, and the libraries we use are already cross-platform by default in most instances. Supporting multiple platforms takes almost zero effort on our part. Especially when we could design something from the ground up that's easy to adapt.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 9 months ago

I really tried to find something, but didn't. shrug Maybe I am not a target user.