• Michael Murphy (S76)@lemmy.worldOPM
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    10 days ago

    You can’t release a desktop operating system without a file manager or text editor. The xdg desktop portal interface for the file chooser portal dialogs requires a file manager to be implemented for the portal to be able to create a file chooser dialog for the operating system on behalf of applications requested file choosers through the portal.

    The text editor is also required to have a GUI toolkit featuring properly rendered and editable text. It is thanks to the text editor project that the Rust ecosystem now has cosmic-text as the de facto crate for handling text layout, shaping, and rendering with support for international language glyps, ligatured language scripts, and bidirectional text layouts.

    • iso@lemy.lol
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      5 days ago

      If you say so. I’m a big fan of Cosmic because I’m hoping it will fill the modern, beautiful and also fast DE gap in Linux world. That’s why I may have sounded a little harsh (especially since it’s not even beta).