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2021-11-08 |
System76 to develop its own desktop environment |
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In a response to a poll about whether Pop!_OS users would be interested in seeing the distribution offer a KDE Plasma edition alongside the project's default GNOME flavour, one of the members of the Pop!_OS team revealed System76 is working on a custom desktop enviroment. The desktop, which will be called COSMIC, is not a fork of GNOME, but a new project written in Rust which will offer the same desktop layout and design as the one Pop!_OS already ships. When asked why System76 would put development effort into a new desktop environment, the response was: "What are you expecting us to do? We have a desktop environment that is a collection of GNOME Shell extensions which break every GNOME Shell release. Either we move towards maintaining tens of thousands of lines of monkey patches, or we do it the right way and make the next step a fully fledged desktop environment equal to GNOME Shell." This announcement comes about two months after the Solus team revealed plans to drop the GTK development library which the Solus team says is negatively impacted by GNOME's management of the toolkit. |
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