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Re:Pop _OS to use it own desktop environment, written in Rust by esarbe on Saturday November 06, 2021 @02:08PM (#29132404)
It would still be less work to build on that foundations. Heck, System76 couldn't even bother to pony up the theming specification they were supposed to do for KDE and Gnome. Never happened.

If they don't even have the resources to work on the toolkit level, how do they expect to get the resources to work on a full desktop stack?

Bad call, imho. But hey - I think Rust is an excellent choice.

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Re:Pop _OS to use it own desktop environment, written in Rust by canadaduane on Saturday November 06, 2021 @06:43PM (#29134523)
Their approach seems to be piecemeal, so I don't think there is a risk of empty promises here. My guess (based on following their dev comments for a few months) is that they are just going to replace the components most diverging from their desktop vision, until it's a new desktop environment.
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