COSMIC lock screen will be customizable with themes
cross-posted from: lemmy.ndlug.org/post/280126
Jeremy Soller shares some examples of the COSMIC lock screen that Pop!_OS is working on.
merthyr1831, Brilliant work! COSMIC is a breath of fresh air for the Linux desktop community.
two questions:
- Is COSMIC DE going to be exclusively Wayland? Would make sense but I’m just curious.
- will COSMIC DE be available separately from Pop!OS? I think this could be a very popular choice for people getting into Arch or Nix, for example.
mmstick, 
- Yes
- That depends on those other distributions willingness to package it for their distributions.
kugmo, 
Is the DE still reliant on GTK? Will there be thumbnails in the filepicker?
hojjat, The DE is not reliant on Gtk, it uses Iced, which is fully written in Rust. And the Gtk file picker also has thumbnails now.
kugmo, Have the cosmic devs said if their file picker portal will support thumbnails?
hojjat, They haven’t created the file chooser portals yet. But I saw a comment from mmstick a few months ago on reddit that he said it will support it. I mean it’s a simple basic- feature, gnome could’ve had it if they cared.
mmstick, We have been developing our own toolkit, libcosmic, which is being used for everything. From the lock screen, compositor, applets for the desktop, and the applications themselves. There is an examples directory for third party developers to learn hope to build their own applets and applications with.
simple, Man that’s so exciting, I despise how boring the gnome lock screen is. The default gray background just looks so bland.
I can’t wait for Cosmic. I might even make the switch when it hits alpha, I’ve had quite enough of Gnome lately.
MonkCanatella, Looks great! I can’t wait, cosmic is already my favorite out of the box DE by a long shot
torvusbogpod, Bruh COSMIC is looking unbelievable. I can’t wait to see it in action. Is it still on track for 1.0 before the end of the year?
mmstick, This year? No. We are still working on achieving our Alpha 1 milestone.
torvusbogpod, Ah, I must have misunderstood. At any rate, y’all are doing great and I can’t wait for the final product.
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