COSMIC DE - The First Modular, Composable Desktop Environment
summary
COSMIC DE is a Rust desktop that avoids GTK/Qt and builds UI with iced and the System76 libcosmic library, shipping a file manager, editor, store, settings and terminal plus a custom compositor with VRR, Xwayland, fractional scaling, hybrid graphics, window snapping and auto-tiling. The shell is modular: panel applets are independent Wayland apps, configs are plain files with atomic renames and separable state, themes and layouts swap on the fly, and the project is currently at alpha 7 with Fedora, Arch, openSUSE and others packaging it.
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chapters (12)
- 0:00COSMIC DE introduction
- 4:37Open source foundational tech
- 7:50Modular composable design
- 9:16Live demo of COSMIC
- 13:08Tiling window management
- 14:54Customization and theming
- 17:23Distributions customizing COSMIC
- 23:12Launcher and app library
- 26:21Modular architecture
- 33:44Platform for developers
- 35:52Releases and support
- 37:19Mission and future
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