cosmic-epoch VS syngesture

https://blog.system76.com/post/the-spirit-of-cosmic-december...

Components of Cosmic Desktop Rust-based Desktop Environment: https://github.com/pop-os/cosmic-epoch#components-of-cosmic-...

cosmic-comp/src/wayland/handlers

Ran git clone --recurse-submodules https://github.com/pop-os/cosmic-epoch

The repo readme has instructions for installing test builds.

https://github.com/pop-os/cosmic-epoch

I think there might be some confusion in this poll and thread -- COSMIC is the name of both a suite of components in Pop_Shell, which modifies (but does not replace) GNOME shell components like the dock and workspaces, as well as a full-fledged desktop environment that replaces GNOME.

system76 is using it to develop their new cosmic desktop environment for linux. The code is here https://github.com/pop-os/cosmic-epoch

We'll see how it starts panning out this year or next.

I have compiled and installed cosmic to test and follow development - https://github.com/pop-os/cosmic-epoch

See https://github.com/pop-os/cosmic-epoch

I heard that the Iced version of COSMIC will allow horizontal and vertical workspaces: https://github.com/pop-os/cosmic-epoch/issues/53

I've shared my opinion on why mouse/trackpad handling is terrible on most Linux distributions [0], thanks to an insane obsession w/ rewriting the entire stack and throwing away vendor-provided acceleration curves in order to provide gesture support, instead of just building it on top of the correct, working solution.

More importantly, there is a solution for fixing this and I've done my part by open sourcing a multi-touch gesture support that's driver-agnostic and runs on top of the vendor-provided drivers w/ their correct acceleration curves [1].

(But TBH I don't know if this applies to Apple's trackpad because I don't know if there are any first-party drivers w/ proper acceleration curves for Linux or if they've all been poorly reverse engineered.)

[0]: https://neosmart.net/blog/multi-touch-gestures-on-linux/

[1]: https://github.com/mqudsi/syngesture/

I wrote a general purpose multitouch daemon w/ gesture support for Linux that works with the existing input stack (i.e. doesn’t require switching to evinput), if anyone is interested:

https://neosmart.net/blog/2020/multi-touch-gestures-on-linux...

https://github.com/mqudsi/syngesture

Regardless of software (touchegg + touché, fusuma, libinput-gestures + libinput-gestures-qt OR gestures, gebaar-libinput, gebaar-libinput-fork, syngesture, gestures), which gestures do you actively use on your Plasma desktop?