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[–] theshatterstone54@feddit.uk 17 points 1 year ago

Good stuff! COSMIC is one of the major tech releases I'm actively looking forward to this year!

[–] cosmic_cowboy@reddthat.com 8 points 1 year ago

Really exciting to see all the new fixes and developments! The release of Cosmic is one of the most exciting things in store for me this year!

[–] mmstick@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I'd recommend everyone to try out cosmic-store (with cosmic-icons) when they get a chance. Whether you use COSMIC or not, it's fully functional with any desktop environment. It's packaged by default in Pop!_OS 22.04, available in Fedora 40 via ryanabx/cosmic-epoch, and the AUR.

[–] boredsquirrel@slrpnk.net 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Really great. But I would love that the "edit rounded corners" would not apply to the workspace number circle and to the switches, as it makes no sense.

[–] 56_@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 year ago

I think it just needs a little polishing. They look a bid odd in those places for now.

[–] jjlinux@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] boredsquirrel@slrpnk.net 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

No interface has squares everywhere. I think this type of switch is VERY established.

gui switch

https://www.iconfinder.com/search?q=switch

[–] jjlinux@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

My thing with squares, in some places or everywhere, but I is that they are not visually welcoming, in my very personal opinion of course. Curves look "safer" so to speak.

[–] mmstick@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I've seen plenty of people using GTK themes with rectangular switches.

[–] boredsquirrel@slrpnk.net 1 points 1 year ago

Interesting!

I personally think slightly rounded and normal round is the best. But the default is fine for me.

I think you are doing really great work! Even though I would have used KDE as design reference but we all are different.

[–] Giooschi@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Metro UI toggle buttons were rectangular though.

[–] sajran@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

I'm so excited for Cosmic!