April Tools: Hammering out new COSMIC Features

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I’m pretty new to linux and just got Pop os running on my gaming pc. When cosmic comes out do I just update or download Cosmic or is it a fresh install on my system?

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It'll likely just be an update and handled by the package manager accordingly. Old Gnome-based Cosmic is being retired afaik.

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This is amazing. I've been waiting for this DE for a long time. I'm very excited to try it out. Let's see if it forces me to switch DEs 😁

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To maintain focus — as well as comfort on trackpads — simply clicking any region of a window while holding Super will allow dragging it to your preferred location and quickly get back to your important task.

Curious why you chose super instead of the usual alt?

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All desktops use the Super key nowadays. Sway, i3, GNOME, Plasma, etc. are all using the Super key. Have been for years. The standard convention is that the Super key is reserved for system-level shortcuts handled by the window manager; and Alt key shortcuts are reserved for application-level shortcuts. Your desktop might have bound both Alt and Super because of legacy reasons.

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I’m not daily driving PopOS anymore but I’m still super excited to test Cosmic when it releases!

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quick question, is the look of the gtk3/4 theming final? Or is it still a work in progress

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Are you interested in contributing? You can find the source code for theme generation here and here.

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I'm looking forward to Cosmic, but I'm curious if it will delay the 24.04 LTS release. 22.04 is pretty long in the tooth at this point.

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How so? 22.04 is actively maintained and updated by Ubuntu, and is still the latest LTS release. On top of that, the most important packages in Pop!_OS are updated frequently, so we are on Mesa 24.0.3 and Linux 6.8.0. As for when COSMIC releases, you should read last month's blog post.

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Nobody who packages debs are updating their applications for jammy anymore. Anything I install is several versions old at this point. Just the other day I tried to compile an application that uses Autocxx, only to find that it requires C++14 headers, and the jammy repo only had up to 12 or 13. I know I can add PPAs or get things other ways, but it kind of defeats the point of a package manager if I'm constantly hunting for things outside of it.

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That's a lot of progress! Worth the read.

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this looks fucking great!

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Its interesting that they switched to the humanity icon theme

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