The display preview in cosmic-setting’s wallpaper settings page will now show how the wallpaper will look like with the scaling mode selected. There’s currently “Fit to Screen”, “Stretch”, and “Zoom”.
Fit to Screen
Stretch
Zoom
Gnome devs were like: “you can’t do this, you’ll fail”
Losers
There were quite a few claiming we don’t have to resources to do this. There was some “concern” warning people that COSMIC will release without accessibility support because we’re not using GTK. There were also claims that we’d need years to have proper text shaping, layout, and rendering that supports every language script. Along with the usual concern posts about a new platform increasing fragmentation of the Linux desktop and therefore causing the death of the Linux desktop.
Yet text-related functionality was implemented within a few months in cosmic-text, which just recently merged into iced. AccessKit already existed at the time and we’ve had successful integration with it in our fork of iced. But apparently we’re suffering from the Dunning–Kruger effect because we think we can implement COSMIC in Rust without relying on GTK.
We have the resources and talent. It’s just a matter of time to get from design to implementation. Every milestone we reach allows development to progress quicker than before. Some still don’t realize how effective Rust is in this domain, or how large its open source ecosystem is that we can utilize. There’s a lot of open source Rust libraries we can rely on that didn’t exist 20 years ago for C. Development experience between C and Rust is totally different so you can’t really compare development times. Wayland protocols, drivers, and application support has also improved a lot in recent years, so timing makes a difference as well.
I can’t wait for the release. I wish I knew when it will be. That is when I plan to switch away from Windows.
Speaking of rust, the COSMIC project is what prompted me to learning rust. Today is the second week of learning!
I love this language
🤪 Not much to add without being inflammatory, but I hear there’s a bunch of humble pies baking.
Not an english native speaker, can you please explain what you mean with “there’s a bunch of humble pies baking”?
By the way, I couldn’t be “politically correct” about it, I just can’t stand their arrogance 😂
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humble_pie
To eat humble pie, in common usage, is to face humiliation and subsequently apologize for a serious mistake.
Looking solid 👍 the addition of scaling modes will be fun to play with. Very excited for the practical features I’ve noticed the team adding to COSMIC DE over the current GNOME-based iteration (and GNOME in general)
Looks very good! Couldn’t help but notice the slight gap between the blue border and app itself in upper corners though.
Look close enough and you’ll see a lot of UX issues. It’s all a work in progress.
Working nicely with a dual ViewSonic display.
That’s a nice feature, these details means a lot. Keep up the good work, can’t wait to use it!
