System76: Closing in on a COSMIC Alpha
We’re on approach towards an alpha version of the new COSMIC desktop environment for Pop!_OS and other distros. Meanwhile, COSMIC testing has expanded to more users around the office. This month, we’re providing updates to the checklist we published in January on remaining tasks for releasing the alpha.
The screenshot tool has been implemented! Take screenshots of your entire screen, a specific window, or a selected area.
This feature is now implemented in COSMIC. Currently, stacking allows you to pair tiled windows together across applications like tabs in a web browser. In COSMIC, you’ll also have the ability to stack floating (non-tiled) windows. This can be done by simply dragging a window to the stack header; drag it out of the header to remove it from the stack. Meanwhile, launching an application while a stack is selected will add that application to the stack.
Also: System76 Says Cosmic Desktop’s Alpha Release Is Almost Here
Linuxiac:
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COSMIC Desktop Is Slated to Debut with Pop!_OS 24.04 LTS
System76, the company behind the popular Ubuntu-based Pop!_OS Linux distro, is developing COSMIC, a desktop environment currently in the alpha stage. It’s creating quite a buzz in the open-source community, with many users eagerly anticipating its release. Here’s why.
For years, GNOME has been trying to “re-educate” users on how a desktop environment should work, often by removing key features that have been staples of the desktop experience for over three decades and introducing controversial changes and approaches to the UI and user’s interaction with the environment.
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System76's Cosmic Desktop debuts with Linux distribution Pop!_OS 24.04 LTS, first alpha coming soon
Already with Pop!_OS 21.04, System76 delivered a relatively heavily customised version of the well-known Gnome desktop environment as Cosmic Desktop in 2021. The changes were triggered by communication problems between System76 and the Gnome developers, as well as a general dissatisfaction with the future development of the Gnome desktop.
As both Pop!_OS 21.04 LTS and 22.04 LTS are still based on Gnome, the System76 team had to limit themselves to Gnome extensions, which, according to Pop!_OS developer Michael Murphy, "felt like a hack". So in late 2021, they began in-house development of the new Cosmic Desktop in the Rust programming language.