System76 Now Planning For COSMIC Desktop Alpha Release In Late May

[t.s.]

"Rewriting your entire app to stop depending on Gnome libraries" seems to be a common theme around projects, tbh.

I really hope good gnome apps (like inkscape, gimp) can be ported asap to either rust or qt. Prefer qt for their integration with plasma (and global menu).

[Alliancemd]

Im so excited for COSMIC, i think extending the deadline to finish the core apps was a smart move.

I tried COSMIC. People should temper their expectations, it's Really Alpha. While it had no crashes(even Ubuntu LTS crashes quite often in the first few days after release), it's a wonky environment, behaving weirdly(or you could say: missing many features we got used to).

[Daktyl198]

I tried COSMIC. People should temper their expectations, it's Really Alpha. While it had no crashes(even Ubuntu LTS crashes quite often in the first few days after release), it's a wonky environment, behaving weirdly(or you could say: missing many features we got used to).

I've also tried cosmic, and I think "tempered expectations" is definitely a must for the first release. That being said, it already supports everything that any Window Manager would support, and many things that they don't. Most of the issues I had with it was the non-functioning settings app (which has improved since I last tried it, and will surely be done before first release) and just some weird non-implementation of random UI things.

[sharpjs]

It's pre-alpha software, so expect pre-alpha quality.

[pharmasolin]

For pre alpha software it behaves fckng stable, and that's fantastic. Of course it's features are not ready. Go help with translations for now.

[Quackdoc]

For pre alpha software it behaves fckng stable, and that's fantastic. Of course it's features are not ready. Go help with translations for now.

the most stable pre-alpha software I have ever used for sure. Can't help with translations, My french is old and I haven't used it in nearly a decade now xD

More like it's the supply and demand mentality, to have something unique to supply with by creating proprietary supplies. But there is also the supplier shares with good intention so word of mouth spreads with demand (different perspectives to supply and create demand is what I am getting at).

is it? because even then he's acting like there is no demand, mmstick even said that they were able to get people to work on it because they were doing so good

[mmstick]

Yeah, we already have third party applications written with our toolkit.

- https://github.com/edfloreshz/cosmic-todo
- https://github.com/wiiznokes/fan-control

These are the ones I'm aware of at the moment.

[sharpjs]

For pre alpha software it behaves fckng stable, and that's fantastic.

That is really great to hear. I have a Framework 16 arriving tomorrow, and I think I'll try COSMIC on it.

[sophisticles]

Local phoronix man pretends S76 isn't successful so he can give bad advice to them.

How do you define successful and how do you know if they are or not?

[sophisticles]

You don't know what are you talking about
Almost every large project or even a company has its own formatting rules/coding guidelines

Examples:
-https://github.com/opencv/opencv/wiki/Coding_Style_Guide
- https://github.com/pytorch/pytorch/wiki/lintrunner

Python by design has its own formatting standard which is called pep8, but yet, google decided to use 2 spaces .

C++ doesn't have it, so there are some of them

- https://google.github.io/styleguide/cppguide.html
- https://llvm.org/docs/CodingStandards.html

I don't know what I am talking about but you are the one that doesn't understand what a specification is, LOL.

Let me make this easy for you, show me where in the official C23 spec is defines a specific number of indentations.

Show me where in the Python spec it defines a specific number of indentations.