libcosmic
WIP library for COSMIC applications (by pop-os)
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| libcosmic | Relm4 | |
|---|---|---|
| 8 | 23 | |
| 277 | 1,310 | |
| 7.9% | 5.7% | |
| 9.7 | 8.9 | |
| 6 days ago | 4 days ago | |
| Rust | Rust | |
| Mozilla Public License 2.0 | Apache License 2.0 |
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Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
libcosmic
Posts with mentions or reviews of libcosmic.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-07-04.
- LXD is now under Canonical
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Tauri vs Iced vs egui: Rust GUI framework performance comparison (including startup time, input lag, resize tests)
That said, a lot of the things we're working on are still in development within our development fork of iced, so they are not yet published for code review. And COSMIC-specific work is in libcosmic, which depends on that.
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How will HDR be implemented in COSMIC Rust?
GUI frameworks: Iced and Slint can be used for making Cosmic apps. You can pull libcosmic into a project to get the COSMIC integration for Iced.
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Progress on the COSMIC DE: client-side window drag resize support in Winit for X11/Wayland and Iced.
https://github.com/pop-os/iced/pull/2 https://github.com/pop-os/libcosmic/pull/17 https://github.com/pop-os/libcosmic/pull/16 https://github.com/pop-os/libcosmic/pull/15
- Iced replacing GTK apps for the new COSMIC desktop in Pop OS
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Exploring System76's New Rust Based Desktop Environment
You can check out the code here: https://github.com/pop-os/libcosmic
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What to expect from Pop!_OS's COSMIC, a desktop environment written from scratch in Rust
COSMIC will let users customize the desktop in the form of Applets. They wouldn’t work like the very-flexible custom scripting in GNOME though, because it could lead to instabilities when the system updates and collateral damage. Applets would be kind of what they are in Linux Mint: an extension attached to the dock or panel.
- What is this new libcosmic repo that says "WIP"?
Relm4
Posts with mentions or reviews of Relm4.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-03-27.
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Writing Gnome Apps with Swift
There is Relm (https://relm4.org/). Which is in Rust is just GTK (through it's Rust bindings) with a nice reactivity layer on top.
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Resources for learning to write ui files for GTK4
I’d recommend you checking out https://relm4.org if you know a little Rust. Relm4 is currently the easiest and most intuitive way to write GTK
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[media] Czkawka 6.0 - File cleaner, now finds similar audio files by content, files by size and name and fix and speedup similar images search
Relm4 might make your migration easier. It has factories which make it easy to create lists (both sync and async) and recently added TypedListView as another useful abstraction over pure gtk-rs. There is a lot of potential in Rust + GTK, you just have to find idiomatic abstractions.
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What are the scenarios where "Rewrite it in Rust" didn't meet your expectations or couldn't be successfully implemented?
Did you try Relm? It's an implementation is the elm architecture (think react) on top of Gtk. Given your experience with Gtk it might suit you really well, as you can even take only parts of it and continue using bare Gtk for the rest. Give it a try!
- Native App Development
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GUI development with Rust and GTK 4
What about relm4? Is it generally feature complete? Can one use relm4 for most things, and drop to gtk4 for the oddball task that is not supported?
https://relm4.org/
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Newbie needs help with Relm4 errors. On Kubuntu
Using this example: https://github.com/Relm4/Relm4/blob/main/examples/simple.rs
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Forte! A new way of writing Gtk apps for GNOME.
What advantage would this Rust crate have over Relm4? It seems pretty similar to me, save for the property based syntax that Forte has, instead of the set_* ones used on Relm4.
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Need guidance for developping GTK4 + Libwaita apps
If you like Rust I recommend Relm4, one of the best experiences I’ve had with a framework tbh, be sure to learn gtk-rs first.
- Rust: State of GUI, December 2022 – KAS blog
What are some alternatives?
When comparing libcosmic and Relm4 you can also consider the following projects:
windows-drivers - Windows Drivers for System76 Open Firmware Machines
gtk4-rs - Rust bindings of GTK 4
cosmic-comp - Compositor for the COSMIC desktop environment
dispatch-proxy - Combine internet connections, increase your download speed
cglue - Rust ABI safe code generator
Gtk4-tutorial - GTK 4 tutorial for beginners
bevy - A refreshingly simple data-driven game engine built in Rust
gtk-rs - Rust bindings for GTK 3
iced - A cross-platform GUI library for Rust, inspired by Elm
dioxus - Fullstack GUI library for web, desktop, mobile, and more.
cosmic-epoch - Next generation Cosmic desktop environment
owlkettle - A declarative user interface framework based on GTK 4