Customizing COSMIC: Theming and Applications (blog.system76.com)
from Krahos@lemmy.world to linux@lemmy.ml on 12 Aug 2023 06:41
https://lemmy.world/post/3068534

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Jaximus@lemmy.ml on 12 Aug 2023 06:44 next collapse

Looks good. I would like to test cosmic whenever I have the time.

Unskilled5117@feddit.de on 12 Aug 2023 07:38 next collapse

Nice work! Glad to see it improving so much over a short period. I am interested in how programms based on Qt or gtk/libadwaita will look/ be themed in Cosmic. Are there any news about that?

Krahos@lemmy.world on 12 Aug 2023 08:56 next collapse

As far as I remember, they said in some reddit post that the theming will be shared.

foobarijk@lemmy.ml on 13 Aug 2023 07:50 collapse

Haven’t they started working on Cosmic instead of using Gnome and gtk because Gnome devs restricted theming? It sounds weird that they’d be able to import their themes to gtk apps, when it was the trigger for their move in the first place.

mmstick@lemmy.world on 12 Aug 2023 18:05 collapse

The toolkit decides how their applications look based on whatever theming engines they use. The desktop doesn’t have control over that. So GTK applications use GTK themes, libadwaita applications use libadwaita themes, libcosmic applications will use libcosmic themes. We’ll try to automatically generate similar-ish GTK/KDE/etc. themes if possible, but it’ll depend by what specs those toollkits support in their theming.

super_user_do@feddit.it on 12 Aug 2023 09:02 next collapse

I can’t wait to finally use it!

SK4nda1@lemmy.ml on 12 Aug 2023 10:17 next collapse

Im really curious. I use the gnome that comes with pop now. I really cant wait to explore cosmic.

JackBruh@lemm.ee on 12 Aug 2023 11:24 next collapse

Looks pretty good

merthyr1831@lemmy.world on 12 Aug 2023 12:56 next collapse

When Cosmic becomes stable I’d 100% use it over my Manjaro GNOME setup. this slaps

nils@feddit.de on 12 Aug 2023 15:23 next collapse

Considering the clashes system76 had with the GNOME team this seems to be going in a similar direction. Having a clearly defined way of theming applications instead of having themes just inject random css is the way to go in my opinion. I’m really excited to finally try Cosmic DE myself!

xpsking@midwest.social on 12 Aug 2023 21:37 next collapse

I’m hyped af for this! Hopefully gtk apps integrate well.

joel_feila@lemmy.world on 12 Aug 2023 23:29 next collapse

do we have a time frame for when it will be ready?

jsnc@lemmy.blahaj.zone on 13 Aug 2023 04:32 collapse

Currently cosmic epoch is in pre-alpha. So I’d expect a release after the next major LTS release of Ubuntu 24.04 (first quarter of 2024).

POP!_OS is still regularly updated with latest Mesa and Kernel.

foobarijk@lemmy.ml on 13 Aug 2023 07:21 collapse

Looks very nice, hopefully they’d fix the stutters visible in the tiling example before the final version. Also, I wonder if they also keep applications alive in case of compositor crash, like KDE would in Plasma 6 (but Gnome does not yet, AFAIK).

mmstick@lemmy.world on 13 Aug 2023 12:00 collapse

There’s no stutter in practice. It’s a recording artifact.

foobarijk@lemmy.ml on 15 Aug 2023 06:03 collapse

Good to know regarding the (non) stutters! Is there a mechanism to reconnect applications to the compositor after a crash so that they’d survive? (or at least a plan to make such a mechanism?)