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Linux is a family of open source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991 by Linus Torvalds. Linux is typically packaged in a Linux distribution (or distro for short).

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A COSMIC Thanksgiving (blog.system76.com)

submitted 11 months ago by Chewy7324@discuss.tchncs.de to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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Notable changes:

Tracking improvements. For example, if you use the launcher to launch an application and then switch workspaces, it will still launch in the workspace you opened it from;
Supported the ext-session-lock protocol, which authenticates the user and informs the compositor when the session should be unlocked
XDG activation and DBus activation support
work on HDR
Ongoing work to package COSMIC on NixOS: tracking issue

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[–] d_k_bo@feddit.de -1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

I want that individual users are able to theme my app. I don't want that distributors and DEs automatically theme my app and expect that it still works the same.

It's a bit like websites: I'm absolutely fine if a user wants to inject some CSS in my website. On the other hand, if a browser manufacturer decided to inject CSS into all websites to customize their look, it would be a nightmare for web developers.

[–] mmstick@lemmy.world 4 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

You don't seem to realize that this is equivalent to that. The user already made the choice to install a desktop environment which generates themes. So if you make the choice to build an application with GTK, and you want users to be able to use system themes with it, then consider it done.

To argue otherwise would make you a hypocrite. It would mean that you don't actually want users to use themes, so you take issue with desktop environments which make it easy to do so by default. So if you want people to be able to use themes, then you shouldn't complain when people choose to use a desktop which enables that use case.