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11 days agoThis is the Olympics. Losing 1% performance because your body is fighting a barely noticeable virus is a problem.
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3·11 days agoThey 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 If they had used GTK they would have still had an outdated and hard to maintain toolkit, and to deal with Gnome politics.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.
16·13 days agoI don’t mind them having account there. They need to reach people where they are after all. I’m pissed at them for not being on any platform that is not owned by a fascist enabler oligarch at best.
I don’t mind them having account there. They need to reach people where they are after all. I’m pissed at them for not being on any platform that is not owned by a fascist enabler oligarch at best.
The shooter was a republican, so it’s more complex than that
Their campaign clip explicitly said that they were against « LGBT activism ».
Not even trying to hide behind excuses. They explicitly think that LGBT rights should be fought against.
Yeah, the greens had a risk of not getting 5% so it was much more worthwhile to vote for them.
Framasoft is already working on a peertube mobile app!
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.
It looks like I was right: https://github.com/pop-os/cosmic-applets/pull/282
20MB for every simple application is a lot, and multical binaries won’t be an option for third party developers.
This is still worth the much better DX of using Rust though.
2·4 months agoSorry, it looks like the link was lost when cross-posting. I updated the post
Is there any plan to have something similar to the Gnome Circle apps for Cosmic? It’d be nice to encourage building a full ecosystem of app with libcosmic that can rival the apps of KDE/Gnome.
This is not relevant to this specific post but does anyone know how if the static linking used in Rust is an issue with cosmic?
The last time I tried building a small app with Iced it was pretty bing (20MB) even though it didn’t do much. On the other hand a GTK app in rust easily fits within 5MB.
Anyway I’m thrilled to try cosmic out as soon as it reached the Arch repos.
Why is helix there then?
I love flatpaks and flathub. They’re amazing for GUI apps, though there are still a couple of wrinkles that needs to be ironed out.
I would really love if it was better with regards to cli apps and developer tooling though. As someone that uses a lot of TUI apps that seriously limit how much I can use flatpak.
But they don’t support the same API. This is completely off topic.
The backend is not
1·8 months agoIt’s developedby Google?
You shouldn’t make claims like this when there is no evidence for it.
Signal has never been P2P.