cosmic vs gnome-hud

cosmic

Computer Operating System Main Interface Components (by pop-os)

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gnome-hud

Unity like HUD menu for the GNOME Desktop Environment using rofi menu. (by hardpixel)

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cosmic		gnome-hud
	Project
72	Mentions	3
1,091	Stars	115
5.8%	Growth	0.0%
4.3	Activity	1.8
3 months ago	Latest Commit	over 2 years ago
JavaScript	Language	Python
GNU General Public License v3.0 only	License	GNU General Public License v3.0 only

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cosmic

Posts with mentions or reviews of cosmic. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-05-10.

Cosmic Desktop: Closing in on a Cosmic Alpha
1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 15 Feb 2024

They are both called Cosmic to make things less confusing.
https://github.com/pop-os/cosmic?tab=readme-ov-file#cosmic
How can I try out COSMIC DE?
1 project | /r/pop_os | 3 Jun 2023

Download the source code of the COSMIC Desktop: git clone https://github.com/pop-os/cosmic
Prá galera curiosa sobre Rust, alguns "contras" a considerar.
4 projects | /r/brdev | 10 May 2023
How to bring application menu back in 22.04
1 project | /r/pop_os | 20 Apr 2023
What Desktop Environment do you use?
2 projects | /r/pop_os | 17 Apr 2023

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.
Touchscreen gestures broken in PopOS with Wayland?
1 project | /r/pop_os | 12 Apr 2023

I'm using PopOS with Wayland on a Surface Go 2, and can't find a way to switch between workspaces and apps using multitouch gestures. There's a bug report here touching on these issues but I'm wondering of anyone has found a good workaround or fix for this. Any advice appreciated!
[Poll] Who is still disabling the Pop COSMIC extension to get the pre-21.04 "Activities" view (combining Workspaces and the Application search)?
1 project | /r/pop_os | 12 Mar 2023

FWIW, I've also created a Github issue on the subject: https://github.com/pop-os/cosmic/issues/386
Dualbooting with Windows 11 on a laptop
1 project | /r/pop_os | 11 Mar 2023
Cosmic Text: Pure Rust multi-line text handling
7 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 2 Mar 2023

The 'Cosmic' name also indicates that; see https://github.com/pop-os/cosmic.
If the Pop Launcher could do anything, what would you want it to do?
5 projects | /r/pop_os | 20 Feb 2023

Just to be clear, you are talking about the Pop Launcher and not the Cosmic Applications Launcher, correct? (since there may be some confusion around what the "Pop Launcher" is vs. the "Cosmic Applications Launcher" ... see https://imgur.com/a/XN34drv for images)

gnome-hud

Posts with mentions or reviews of gnome-hud. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-11-16.

Opportunistic, pragmatic Pop!
6 projects | /r/pop_os | 16 Nov 2021

Don't underestimate the appeal of small utilities. The elementary appcenter has nice little tools like this or this, and Mint has warpinator. Unity used to have some nice little helpers, too. For instance a HUD. Lets make a list of tools (or browse OMGUbuntu) and pick the top 20. Maybe includin this. Make them available on Pop and make the top 5 part of the default installation.
Audacity Aquired by Muse Group
5 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 1 May 2021

If you’re using the applications on Linux you can use HUDs like https://github.com/hardpixel/gnome-hud
System76 Developing “Cosmic” Desktop Environment
11 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 13 Apr 2021

What are some alternatives?

When comparing cosmic and gnome-hud you can also consider the following projects:

gnome-shell-extended-gestures - Better touchpad gesture handling for GNOME

workspaces - Workspaces app for linux elementaryos gtk

touche - The desktop application to configure Touchégg

LibreScore - The open source (GPLv3), serverless (IPFS-based), offline-first, and totally free alternative to musescore.com

shell - Pop!_OS Shell

warpinator - Share files across the LAN

gnome-shell-extension-ubuntu-dock - Pop!_OS fork of https://github.com/micheleg/dash-to-dock/tree/ubuntu-dock

musescore-downloader - ⚠️ This repo has moved to https://github.com/LibreScore/dl-librescore ⚠️ | Download sheet music (MSCZ, PDF, MusicXML, MIDI, MP3, download individual parts as PDF) from musescore.com for free, no login or Musescore Pro required | 免登录、免 Musescore Pro，免费下载 musescore.com 上的曲谱

dash-to-dock - A dock for the Gnome Shell. This extension moves the dash out of the overview transforming it in a dock for an easier launching of applications and a faster switching between windows and desktops.

pocillo-gtk-theme - GTK+ 3.22 & GTK+ 4 based theme for the Budgie Desktop that has Material Design elements and styled using the Arc colour palette

gnome-shell-extension-appindicator - Adds KStatusNotifierItem support to the Shell

TMSU - TMSU lets you tags your files and then access them through a nifty virtual filesystem from any other application.