COSMIC Desktop Rolls Out Lock/Login Screen, More Wayland Protocols

[phoronix]

Phoronix: COSMIC Desktop Rolls Out Lock/Login Screen, More Wayland Protocols

System76 engineers working on their COSMIC desktop environment for their Ubuntu-based Pop!_OS Linux distribution continue to be quite busy working on this Rust-written desktop code...

https://www.phoronix.com/news/System76-COSMIC-October

[evasb]

Hope this lock/Login screen is independent from the rest of cosmic because I like it and I want to use it on Sway/Hyprland

[rmfx]

That looks beautiful !

And since GNOME decided to join the circus industry, COSMIC devs must feel twice as confident about taking their distances from this project and making their own.

[timofonic]

To me, it seems like a sane and really modern version of an alternate and not schizophrenic evolution of what GNOME should have been.

Gobject and such, that makes very early Rust code look evolved.

[Steffo]

They actually have linked a web demo of the login screen which I find very impressive they could translate Rust and their UI to WebAssembly! - Very cool!

[fitzie]

Hope this lock/Login screen is independent from the rest of cosmic because I like it and I want to use it on Sway/Hyprland

this seems to be it:

https://github.com/pop-os/cosmic-greeter

it uses greetd, just like sway, but of course it's communicating with other cosmic components for things like the applet status/notifications. they don't fall under the gnome cabal groupthink of closed protocols, monolithic binary, limiting freedom/compatibility, so I'd expect people will figure out how reuse bits under different compositors.

[Debunez]

Nope, not for me. I personally don't like it at all. Thankfully, I will stick with GNOME which has taste.

[chromer]

It looks promising...
Curious to see how it is versus KDE.

[fitzie]

They actually have linked a web demo of the login screen which I find very impressive they could translate Rust and their UI to WebAssembly! - Very cool!

that's figma. I don't think it's real code.

[fitzie]

Nope, not for me. I personally don't like it at all. Thankfully, I will stick with GNOME which has taste.

are you talking about the lock screen? or the entire DE? most of cosmic looks like gnome, which makes sense because popos uses gnome today.