System76 Making COSMIC Improvements To Their Launcher, Better Performance
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System76 shared an update today on the COSMIC desktop environment and their first update for this spring season. It was noted that the System76 design team isn't yet dog-feeding COSMIC on a daily basis but "it's close to being ready" for the design team to use as a daily driver.
Recently the COSMIC developers have been working to bring a more finished look and feel to the COSMIC launcher. Here's the latest COSMIC launcher appearance from System76:
COSMIC is also better respecting panel preferences with respect to full-screen or maximizing of windows, active hints and configurable window gaps are now working with the COSMIC tiling model, COSMIC-Time has been published as a new simple animation API, and there has been a lot of performance work done to this Rust-based desktop environment. RAM usage of COSMIC's text editor has been halved, start-up times are faster. and there is more efficient XWayland usage.
More details on the COSMIC desktop environment work being done by System76 can be found via their blog.
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