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COSMIC ALPHA 1 Released (Desktop Environment Written In Rust From System76)(system76.com)

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FizzyOrange@programming.dev
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Looks nice. Well as far as I can tell anyway. Maybe next time you’re showing off a GUI don’t make the screenshots 320x240?

Anyone know what toolkit they are using? As far as I know none of the Rust GUI toolkits are close to mature.

Edit: it’s iced.

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autokludge@programming.dev
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Screenshots are scaled based on your device, try ‘Desktop Site’ if you are using a phone.

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FizzyOrange@programming.dev
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Ah yeah that works. Very silly. Phones can zoom!

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autokludge@programming.dev
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Yeah it’s a loading time optimisation thing. Still, usually you would have a click to full-size function if showing details is important

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KindaABigDyl@programming.dev
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It’s a bit more than iced as they’ve created a library on top of it, esp for the theming they desire

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nerd_E7A8@programming.dev
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I’ve tested it for a whole of 10 minutes so far, but for an alpha, it’s excellent. In my subjective “feel” it sits somewhere between Gnome and KDE.

Note: on my setup Steam didn’t like being scaled at non-integer scaling level. It would occasionally hang the whole DE for several seconds (on Gnome it only hangs its own window).

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ex_06@slrpnk.net
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do you have any hint on why i would prefer it over kde? i’m not a linux user right now but kde looks already the most polished experience, i don’t know where it lacks :O

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heikkiket@programming.dev
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Do they have some preference what GUI toolkit apps should use? GTK or Qt?

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ericjmorey@programming.dev
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See: https://blog.system76.com/post/cosmic-team-interview-byoux

We considered toolkits like GTK, Flutter, and QT, and though the team was already experienced working with GTK for Pop!_OS, eventually landed on the Rust-based toolkit, Iced.

https://iced.rs/

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theherk@lemmy.world
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It looks well designed. I wonder if it will find purchase among users.

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