Will Pop!_OS ever do an officially KDE flavor or will it forever be GNOME-only? Would you like Pop!_OS to do a KDE Flavor? (Poll)

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  • I'm no expert on this, but the best bet is gtk-rs; would be cool to see a native rust GUI library like SixtyFPS be used.

  • kwinft

  • Interesting. If you don't mind, I'm working on KWinFT, originally forked from KWin, and now in the process of splitting out reusable libraries for compositor creation. My goal is to provide desktop-agnostic template libraries, so might be a good fit for you.

  • smithay

    A smithy for rusty wayland compositors

  • There's also Smithay (https://github.com/Smithay/smithay) 👀

  • wayfire

    A modular and extensible wayland compositor

  • Have you looked at Wayfire? It's like Compiz for Wayland, modular and extensible. I think this would be awesome for letting people choose how their desktop looks like, without any big compromises. I don't know how easy would it be to make plugins with Rust, though.

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