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Re:Cosmic Desktop: Hammering Out New Cosmic Features by nazgulsenpai on Thursday April 18, 2024 @09:38AM (#40076099)
I appreciate that System76 is making the changes that they want to see in the DE themselves, and I think overall it looks very cohesive and I can understand what they are trying to achieve. But unfortunately it has the same problems that I have with modern GNOME - it looks like a mobile phone/tablet UI. I really can't understand the design trend of hiding all but basic functionality behind a hamburger menu, or if you're lucky a few unlabeled toolbar icons to decipher, on a destkop PC. Or shoving a search bar and all of the application's menu/toolbar (what's left of it) into the title bar. It makes perfect sense on a small screen, but their flagship products are desktop and laptop PCs.
Re:Cosmic Desktop: Hammering Out New Cosmic Features by panick21_ on Thursday April 18, 2024 @01:00PM (#40078335)
I dont get why you want a titlebar. Like what does it add? Its literally empty space with no function.

You can still grab the window or double click it even if part of it has a search bar in it.

Re:Cosmic Desktop: Hammering Out New Cosmic Features by mmstick76 on Thursday April 25, 2024 @09:05AM (#40157033)
Have you never heard of tiling window management? You do realize that tiling window managers are used on multi-display setups with multiple 4K displays, right? Windows have to be responsive to very narrow widths to be comfortable for use in a tile. Regardless if you have a small screen, or use 4K displays like I do.