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System76 Developing “Cosmic” Desktop Environment

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Re: System76 Developing “Cosmic” Desktop Environment

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That's really weird, considering things like gedit and gnome-terminal are tabbed. Perhaps ask them to get the usability study from those guys :).

"The concept of Evince is one document, one window"

Wish they'd just say they don't want to do it than trot out a pompous question-begging rationale.

Re: System76 Developing “Cosmic” Desktop Environment

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post #93

I've recently switched from my usual MBP upgrade to System 76 (Oryx Pro). While yes, Apple's walled garden does feel like a Rolls Royce compared to anything, the price tag difference this time was just way too step for me to keep buying a new Mac: It was basically 2x or more for roughly similar hardware, if not slightly worse on the MBP side. Overall, using Pop_OS! with its specialized GNOME3 setup has been a bliss,…

There is no configuration where MBP and Oryx Pro have "roughly similar hardware". They are completely different designs.

Re: System76 Developing “Cosmic” Desktop Environment

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When Ubuntu dropped the hammer on Gnome2, I saw Unity desktop and was kinda... ewwww. And next I have installed Gnome 3. After 15 minutes with it I decided that Unity is actually not that bad , so I switched to it. In the following years Unity kinda grew on me, so I'm sad that it was axed and now everyone use this Gnome3 abomination. It is not as bad as it was five years before, but loss of top menu and general prefe…

> loss of top menu

There's a Unite extension for that: https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/1287/unite/

Re: System76 Developing “Cosmic” Desktop Environment

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When Ubuntu dropped the hammer on Gnome2, I saw Unity desktop and was kinda... ewwww. And next I have installed Gnome 3. After 15 minutes with it I decided that Unity is actually not that bad , so I switched to it. In the following years Unity kinda grew on me, so I'm sad that it was axed and now everyone use this Gnome3 abomination. It is not as bad as it was five years before, but loss of top menu and general prefe…

> general preference for biggins buttons instead of drop-down I could never understand the strong revulsion some people have with that design language. To me the Windows 95 "File Edit etc." toolbar is terribly eye straining and has no place in the 21st century. Besides, with the ubiquity of touch screens in laptops the GNOME team has been entirely vindicated in their decision to take a more touch oriented approach. L…

And we can't understand your revulsion to having usable screen real estate and high quality (non-touch) screens and input methods. I don't want to paw at my screen all day with gorilla arms.

Re: System76 Developing “Cosmic” Desktop Environment

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Is this yet another GNOME3 fork? Please don't contribute to the fragmentation of the Linux desktop, seriously.

I'm primarily a KDE user, but I'd rather see all distros ship vanilla GNOME than the inconsistent mess we have today. Every time I help a new Linux user, I find that they're using a desktop I have never seen before, and I don't know how to help them setup Japanese input or HiDPI support without switching the entire desktop.

I recently previewed GNOME40, and it's great: finally, virtual desktops and the "dock" behave similarly to any other OS, and animations are as smooth as macOS. Also, Wayland now works so well that you won't even notice you're using it.

Even Canonical has figured out how to work with upstream to resolve their usability and performance concerns. Why can't System76 engineers do the same?

Re: System76 Developing “Cosmic” Desktop Environment

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Is this yet another GNOME3 fork? Please don't contribute to the fragmentation of the Linux desktop, seriously. I'm primarily a KDE user, but I'd rather see all distros ship vanilla GNOME than the inconsistent mess we have today. Every time I help a new Linux user, I find that they're using a desktop I have never seen before, and I don't know how to help them setup Japanese input or HiDPI support without switching the…

I found the source code: https://github.com/pop-os/cosmic

It's just an extension for gnome-shell 3.38. So not a fork, but it might still delay them in upgrading to GNOME40.

Re: System76 Developing “Cosmic” Desktop Environment

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post #243

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I don’t get the love for iTerm2. I tried it before and see nothing appealing for me over the built in Terminap.app. And it seems to be slower too. On Linux, I just use whatever ship with the distro Gnome Terminal, Konsole... and they work fine.

The search for text -> tab to highlight more of a search result -> the highlighted text is already copied to the clipboard automatically workflow was such a game changer for me, it’s so snappy. Could probably be configured on other terminals?

Konsole has all of that
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