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Written in Rust language, System76 announces the recent development of COSMIC desktop environment

Shulou Source: shulou.com Published: 2023-11-24 14:20:37 11月15日 Update

CTOnews.com February 1 news, the main sales of Linux notebook / desktop manufacturer System76 in a recent blog post, a detailed introduction of the current development status of the COSMIC desktop environment. The blog post indicates that the desktop environment is written in the Rust programming language and uses the Iced development kit.

CTOnews.com mini-class: in addition to selling and promoting its own hardware products, System76 has also launched a Poppy desktop OS Linux distribution, and COSMIC is the desktop environment used for this distribution.

CTOnews.com is accompanied by the recent development of COSMIC desktop environment described by System76 in his blog post:

Add tags and segment buttons to enhance page interaction

Improve COSMIC's setup application, including enhanced search, optimized power, sound, and display-related settings layout.

Choose the hardware / software rendering method according to the hardware situation, and use Iced-Dynrend to dynamically render COSMIC DE.

COSMIC's synthesizer (cosmic-comp) has now added support for XWayland. Other X11 systems such as Firefox, Steam and so on are supported on COSMIC desktop environment.