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Cosmic Desktop: Closing in on a Cosmic Alpha

75 points by pantalaimon 3y ago

cherryteastain 3y ago
How's the support for VRR, HDR and fractional scaling on Cosmic? The first DE implementing these three I am switching to immediately. (KDE is really close, to be fair)
- TehCorwiz 3y ago
  Honestly these are the only features keeping me on Windows.
- based_gigachad2 3y ago
  KDE should already support VRR and fractional scaling with more improvements coming in Plasma 6, and no non-fullscreen HDR yet until the Wayland color management protocol gets finalized
- mmstick76 3y ago
  VRR, fractional scaling, and 10-bit color depth is already supported. HDR metadata is not yet supported. These will be refined before the final release.
sandreas 3y ago
I really hope they have a proper global solution for kinetic / inertial scrolling... Already filed an issue[1], but I think they have more important stuff todo :-) [1]: https://github.com/pop-os/cosmic/issues/408 https://github.com/pop-os/cosmic/issues/408
- mmstick76 3y ago
  That repository is a gnome-shell extension, unrelated to cosmic-epoch.
  - sandreas 3y ago
    Thank you. I cloned the issue to https://github.com/pop-os/cosmic-epoch/issues/204 https://github.com/pop-os/cosmic-epoch/issues/204, hopefully this is the right one...
exabrial 3y ago
my next laptop will be a System76. I wish they had ARM options, but I'll take what I can get!
- hiyer 3y ago
  I wish they were available in India :-(
winrid 3y ago
Looking forward to switching just to get rid of the terrible Pop Shop. It has to be the worst open source software I've used.
- mmstick76 3y ago
  It's possible to install the `cosmic-store`, but it will be some time before it's ready to replace the elementary appcenter.
  - winrid 3y ago
    I don't see any kind of db in cosmic-store's dependencies. So is it going to have the exact same memory usage problems as elementary appcenter?
    - mmstick76 3y ago
      Where the elementary appcenter needs 900 MB, and KDE Discover needs 600 MB, the COSMIC Store needs only 60 MB. The COSMIC Store uses serde to serialize package metadata into a bitcode format, which uses significantly less memory and enables rapid application startup times. As a result, it does not need to run in the background, and it can search the entire database in realtime within 5ms.
      - winrid 3y ago
        Amazing, thanks for your work!
- vorticalbox 3y ago
  pop!_os comes with flakpak enabled so i always just avoid the store and head to flathub[0] [0] https://flathub.org/en https://flathub.org/en
danjoredd 3y ago
I thought this was already at full release lol. Never knew what features Cosmic was supposed to add on top of Gnome
- aaomidi 3y ago
  Cosmic is a from scratch DE. Not the gnome with extension.
  - frankjr 3y ago
    They are both called Cosmic to make things less confusing. https://github.com/pop-os/cosmic?tab=readme-ov-file#cosmic https://github.com/pop-os/cosmic?tab=readme-ov-file#cosmic
    - danjoredd 3y ago
      That explains my confusion quite a bit. Thanks for letting me know!

75 points by pantalaimon 3y ago

How's the support for VRR, HDR and fractional scaling on Cosmic? The first DE implementing these three I am switching to immediately. (KDE is really close, to be fair)

TehCorwiz 3y ago
Honestly these are the only features keeping me on Windows.
based_gigachad2 3y ago
KDE should already support VRR and fractional scaling with more improvements coming in Plasma 6, and no non-fullscreen HDR yet until the Wayland color management protocol gets finalized
mmstick76 3y ago
VRR, fractional scaling, and 10-bit color depth is already supported. HDR metadata is not yet supported. These will be refined before the final release.

sandreas 3y ago

I really hope they have a proper global solution for kinetic / inertial scrolling... Already filed an issue[1], but I think they have more important stuff todo :-) [1]: https://github.com/pop-os/cosmic/issues/408 https://github.com/pop-os/cosmic/issues/408

mmstick76 3y ago
That repository is a gnome-shell extension, unrelated to cosmic-epoch.
- sandreas 3y ago
  Thank you. I cloned the issue to https://github.com/pop-os/cosmic-epoch/issues/204 https://github.com/pop-os/cosmic-epoch/issues/204, hopefully this is the right one...

exabrial 3y ago

my next laptop will be a System76. I wish they had ARM options, but I'll take what I can get!

hiyer 3y ago
I wish they were available in India :-(

winrid 3y ago

Looking forward to switching just to get rid of the terrible Pop Shop. It has to be the worst open source software I've used.

mmstick76 3y ago
It's possible to install the `cosmic-store`, but it will be some time before it's ready to replace the elementary appcenter.
- winrid 3y ago
  I don't see any kind of db in cosmic-store's dependencies. So is it going to have the exact same memory usage problems as elementary appcenter?
  - mmstick76 3y ago
    Where the elementary appcenter needs 900 MB, and KDE Discover needs 600 MB, the COSMIC Store needs only 60 MB. The COSMIC Store uses serde to serialize package metadata into a bitcode format, which uses significantly less memory and enables rapid application startup times. As a result, it does not need to run in the background, and it can search the entire database in realtime within 5ms.
    - winrid 3y ago
      Amazing, thanks for your work!
vorticalbox 3y ago
pop!_os comes with flakpak enabled so i always just avoid the store and head to flathub[0] [0] https://flathub.org/en https://flathub.org/en

danjoredd 3y ago

I thought this was already at full release lol. Never knew what features Cosmic was supposed to add on top of Gnome

aaomidi 3y ago
Cosmic is a from scratch DE. Not the gnome with extension.
- frankjr 3y ago
  They are both called Cosmic to make things less confusing. https://github.com/pop-os/cosmic?tab=readme-ov-file#cosmic https://github.com/pop-os/cosmic?tab=readme-ov-file#cosmic
  - danjoredd 3y ago
    That explains my confusion quite a bit. Thanks for letting me know!