Re:Exploring System76's New Rust Based Desktop Environment
by pjmlp on Friday January 14, 2022 @02:05AM
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Not at all, if you would say "A window manager isn't that difficult to make, that's why we have so many.", I would agree.
A desktop environment is so much more, is a full stack development experience, with development tooling, APIs, and UI/UX workflows that users can be confident they work across most applications unless they go out of their way not to support the native idioms of the desktop environment being used.
Most of those "so many experiments" fail at being half as good GNOME/KDE are at being a full desktop environment as other desktop and mobile platforms are.
A desktop environment is so much more, is a full stack development experience, with development tooling, APIs, and UI/UX workflows that users can be confident they work across most applications unless they go out of their way not to support the native idioms of the desktop environment being used.
Most of those "so many experiments" fail at being half as good GNOME/KDE are at being a full desktop environment as other desktop and mobile platforms are.