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Re:Cosmic Desktop: Hammering Out New Cosmic Features by tracker1 on Thursday April 18, 2024 @10:07AM (#40076418)
My biggest curiosity is how easy it hard it will be to use their UI widgets for third party software and release on other DE.

I like the idea of writing more apps with Rust and if the ergonomic fit is better than alternatives, this could be a great way Forward. Bridging themes with gnome/gtk in the other direction likely a necessity for that use case.

My only other concern is getting kde tray apps to work out of the box. With budgie/Gnome, I've had to install an add on for that.

Not that I have a lot of things needing the integration. Variety and Dropbox being the main ones for me.

It's also annoying when Windows don't have a corresponding handle in the taskbar.

If they deal with these annoyances well, I'll be more than happy with the next Pop release.

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Re:Cosmic Desktop: Hammering Out New Cosmic Features by mmstick76 on Thursday April 25, 2024 @09:01AM (#40156989)
Third party developers have access to the same APIs that COSMIC applets and applications use. It's not possible for a crate to prevent use of public APIs based on who is importing the crate.
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