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@LundukeJournal This was a rage baiter that posted the same thread with the same loaded "questions" several times over the span of an entire week. Harassing, antagonizing, and provoking everyone who responded. Making wildly inaccurate claims and openly asking to be banned.

System76 is now censoring and banning users, in their r/pop_os Reddit, for asking if the company will require age verification in their Linux Distribution (the Ubuntu-based Pop!_OS). reddit.com/r/pop_os/comme…

@drainurlyfe @tngaskell @cmdr_nova @vaxryy Not specifically, no. It is officially recommended to try COSMIC on your preferred distribution. There are weekly point releases to give distributions the ability to ship COSMIC to their schedule while also remaining close behind the latest release builds in Pop!_OS.

@tngaskell @cmdr_nova @vaxryy well i mean they made it specifically for their os. it's a given. which is why you shouldn't really try to use cosmic outside of popos

in linux there are no wrong choices except the ones made by Linus "Tech Tip" Sebastian in choosing a distro

Today, I met with Colorado Senator Matt Ball, co-author of Colorado OS Age Attestation Bill SB26-051. Sen. Ball suggested excluding open source software from the bill. This appears to be a real possibility. Amendments are expected for the CA age attestation bill. It's my hope we can move fast enough to influence excluding open source in the CA bill amendments. No illusions, it's an uphill battle, but we have an open door to advocate for the open source community.

@TObikansi35734 @pop_os_official The GUI toolkit (libcosmic) was built in-house along with all of its theming capabilities. It is based on iced and as a Rust-based GUI toolkit it currently uses wgpu for hardware rendering and tiny_skia for software rendering. iced.rs system76.com/cosmic

@pop_os_official I can tell this custom theming is built with flutter. This is the work of an impeller over skia

Pop!_OS 24.04 LTS is now available for 22.04 LTS users! This upgrade introduces the COSMIC desktop that streamlines features like auto-tiling, adds custom theming, customizable panels and applets, security improvements, and more.

@ernmander @COSMIC_desktop @pop_os_official Thunderbird has one built in.

Did the Calendar for @COSMIC_desktop ever become a thing? @pop_os_official I can’t find it on the clean install I’ve done, but I recall there was maybe work on a bespoke calendar for COSMIC. I need a Calendar that works with the desktop and does the reminders etc

@deepwatrcreatur Applets for the panel are distributed by Flatpak rather than NixOS. Easy to build with the cosmic-applet-template, but any Wayland app can be a panel applet. The panel spawns and positions the main window into itself, and then forwards popups to the host compositor.

@deepwatrcreatur I'm not sure where it pulled these data points from. The cosmic-panel is a wlr-layer-shell applet and is therefore compatible with all Wayland compositors (except GNOME). There are no memory leaks, it is stable as of December 11th, and libcosmic has a lot of documentation/support

I had to restart COSMIC session every day, usually in the morning after leaving unattended for hours. LLM studied the logs and pinpointed memory leak in the greeter. While it was working I asked another agent to develop a Hyprland session with same layout. Will try suggested fix.

@starga93054 @carlrichell libcosmic is currently being rebased on iced 0.14, which added widget animation support. This will bring some animations for free and enable us to add animations for our custom widgets.

@carlrichell what about animations in general?

COSMIC now features rounded corners and window shadow on all apps. Update Pop for the latest. It'll arrive in your favorite distro soon. Options are in Settings > Appearance > Window shadow and corners

@Lineax17 @carlrichell You can choose any color as an app background color in the Appearance settings page.

@carlrichell How do you get this nice adwaita look? Is it a theme (thats downloadable from cosmic tweaks)? I prefer cosmic over gnome but i love the libadwaita look and feel.

@ChukwurahSomtoo @carlrichell See the "Window shadow and corners" settings in the Appearance settings page. You can enable this for tiled windows as well.

@carlrichell What if we are in tiling mode? I realized in tiling it goes back to square

@DennisCabooter @carlrichell This feature was released yesterday in 1.0.2

@carlrichell Should I be able to find the setting in COSMIC 1.0.1 Epoch? Also dock transparancy is not always working while shown from being hided in front of most apps.

@COSMIC_desktop @e1ectrino @bishopdotdev @pop_os_official I believe this screenshot is of a very old comment from the alpha era, so all but HDR and QT theming has been resolved.

@e1ectrino @bishopdotdev @pop_os_official Out of curiosity, since this hasn't been my personal experience, where are you seeing slowness with Files? And on what distro?

Not going to lie @COSMIC_desktop on @pop_os_official is so good! Super simple, powerful, flexible DE. If you're in the market I highly recommend giving it a try!

@MadScientist_42 @system76 Do you have `network-manager-openconnect` installed? With that you should be able to create a connection through the "Advanced Network Configuration" app. Click the + button. This is installed by default as a workaround until we're able to replicate its functionality in COSMIC.

@system76, pretty thing COSMIC. Shame your boys failed on at least ONE crucial selling point for it. Many of your customers ARE Enterprise folks or consultants to them. Whatever in the HELL possessed you all to ignore the most prevalent VPN used in that context? No OpenConnect support. Had to be Rust pure, didn't ya? It's going to make me fall back to the old crap because I'm one of that class of customer- or install a distro that's caught up with cleaner Optimus, etc. support that DOESN'T have an Enlightenment DE type mentality going on there.

@AceOfSticks1 @COSMIC_desktop You can if you want to

@mmstick @COSMIC_desktop Everything is an app then. Why not put also the wifi button

@COSMIC_desktop my two cents, as these tree buttons are not apps but desktop functions.

@AceOfSticks1 @COSMIC_desktop They are actually apps though. They just specify a variable in their desktop entry to grant them placement in the panel applets selector.

@COSMIC_desktop Thanks for reaching! No my feedback is that these three buttons are out of place there imho because they are not apps. So either move in a completely different place of the desktop or put a separator between them and the actual apps

@toolbar23 @StochasticGhost @__tpbpp @COSMIC_desktop Yes, and the update with the protocol implemented has already been released.

@StochasticGhost @__tpbpp @COSMIC_desktop didn't they just propose a wayland protocol to fix this?

I think I'm finally sold on @COSMIC_desktop. Even in its beta state I've never been as happy with how a Linux DE looks and what it can do out of the box. Mini review 🧵

@retronymph @__tpbpp @COSMIC_desktop It's already been packaged by most distributions since the alpha last year. The DE doesn't care what Linux distribution you're using, and the apps are already running on Redox OS, Windows, and other operating systems.

@__tpbpp @COSMIC_desktop how has the experience been as far as integration with nix? my concern with cosmic is I'm worried it will end up being too pop-focused at the exclusion of other distros

@HytaleIsTheGoat @carlrichell Yes, since the protocol allows the window to tell the compositor about its shape, the compositor could also use that info to determine the boundaries for blurring.

xdg-surface-shape-v1 has been submitted to wayland-protocols. The protocol provides a method for clients to communicate their corner radii to the server/compositor and thus enable clean outlines around windows made with additional toolkits. gitlab.freedesktop.org/wayland/waylan…

@AleksandPalamar @motor_maburrr @COSMIC_desktop @system76 It's not expected for there to be any delay at all. Do you see any delay or smoothness issues in the Pop 24.04 Beta ISO?

@1pumpcump @carlrichell I tried it. Even though it's using JSON for the protocol, it's significantly faster than a dbus connection. Which is probably because clients connect directly to the server's unix socket instead of using a broker that broadcasts messages. May be useful for cosmic-config.

@carlrichell Creator of zbus is working on zlink now to support the upcoming varlink protocol. As a non programmer, is COSMIC eligible to swap over to this dbus replacement in the near future?

3.5 years of development but it feels like leaping forward a decade.