Pop _OS to use it own desktop environment, written in Rust

Re:Pop _OS to use it own desktop environment, written in Rust by lousken on Saturday November 06, 2021 @01:26PM (#29132059)

Even though I'd like to see Rust everything I agree, considering the amount of issues even the major DE have I find it very unlikely that system76 would be able to do any better. Improving the current DEs would be much smarter not just in terms of compatibility

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Re:Pop _OS to use it own desktop environment, written in Rust by jatone on Saturday November 06, 2021 @03:49PM (#29133262)

eh you don't seem to realize how shitty current (GTK/Qt) toolkits are from developer ergonomics.

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Re:Pop _OS to use it own desktop environment, written in Rust by kaba0 on Saturday November 06, 2021 @05:21PM (#29133896)

But you can’t really not use these toolkits — they do an astonishing amount of work that you simply can’t replace without years of work.

The actual graphical part is easy, as well as using an existing toolkit. Writing a new one from scratch is ridiculously hard (but I guess they can reuse some libs?)

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Re:Pop _OS to use it own desktop environment, written in Rust by lousken on Saturday November 06, 2021 @03:53PM (#29133293)

I am not a dev, but talking with them and using tons of apps I'd say I haven't seen a good desktop GUI toolkit from anyone yet

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