Looks nice. Well as far as I can tell anyway. Maybe next time you’re showing off a GUI don’t make the screenshots 320x240?
Anyone know what toolkit they are using? As far as I know none of the Rust GUI toolkits are close to mature.
Edit: it’s iced.
Screenshots are scaled based on your device, try ‘Desktop Site’ if you are using a phone.
Ah yeah that works. Very silly. Phones can zoom!
Yeah it’s a loading time optimisation thing. Still, usually you would have a click to full-size function if showing details is important
It’s a bit more than iced as they’ve created a library on top of it, esp for the theming they desire
I’ve tested it for a whole of 10 minutes so far, but for an alpha, it’s excellent. In my subjective “feel” it sits somewhere between Gnome and KDE.
Note: on my setup Steam didn’t like being scaled at non-integer scaling level. It would occasionally hang the whole DE for several seconds (on Gnome it only hangs its own window).
Do they have some preference what GUI toolkit apps should use? GTK or Qt?
See: https://blog.system76.com/post/cosmic-team-interview-byoux
We considered toolkits like GTK, Flutter, and QT, and though the team was already experienced working with GTK for Pop!_OS, eventually landed on the Rust-based toolkit, Iced.
It looks well designed. I wonder if it will find purchase among users.
Looks nice and all, but I doubt I’ll use it. Feels alot like GNOME
