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Re:Cosmic Desktop Is Slated to Debut with Pop _OS 24.04 LTS by cocoa19 on Sunday February 18, 2024 @04:56PM (#39423856)
Make them with what GUI library?

GPUI is not mature yet, so I wouldn’t use it for anything serious, and Qt bindings support is not great.

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Re:Cosmic Desktop Is Slated to Debut with Pop _OS 24.04 LTS by karthikiyengar on Sunday February 18, 2024 @04:57PM (#39423867)
https://iced.rs/

This is what Cosmic is written in.

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Re:Cosmic Desktop Is Slated to Debut with Pop _OS 24.04 LTS by vlod on Sunday February 18, 2024 @05:22PM (#39424083)
One of the things I find interesting is that it won't necessarily be tied just to popos. I believe other distros are looking into it. (Can't find references now)

If anyone is interested in the 'why', here's an old (1 year ago) thread [0] explaining why they are moving away from GTK.

[0]: https://www.reddit.com/r/pop_os/comments/xs87ed/is_iced_repl...

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Re:Cosmic Desktop Is Slated to Debut with Pop _OS 24.04 LTS by cocoa19 on Sunday February 18, 2024 @05:04PM (#39423939)
Wow. Iced is also not mature, but being backed by an important project such as Pop OS gives me hope it will stick around.

Maybe it’s time to dive into Rust with Iced, and port over a Qt project I’ve been working on.

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