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Re:Exploring System76's New Rust Based Desktop Environment by aidenn0 on Thursday January 13, 2022 @03:44PM (#29926578)
The shell is implemented in GTK4, and the compositor depends on smithay[1], so I assume they plan for Wayland support.

1: https://github.com/pop-os/cosmic-comp/blob/main/Cargo.toml#L...

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Re:Exploring System76's New Rust Based Desktop Environment by pkulak on Thursday January 13, 2022 @04:07PM (#29926867)
Interesting, thanks. Guess they went that way because of Rust, but it would have been super cool to have another wlroots compositor on the block.

EDIT: Just found this, which explains a bit: http://way-cooler.org/blog/2019/04/29/rewriting-way-cooler-i...

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Re:Exploring System76's New Rust Based Desktop Environment by stjohnswarts on Thursday January 13, 2022 @05:54PM (#29928176)
You never know what's possible in the future but I imagine right now they're working on the core features so supporting every compositor around is down the road a bit.
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