Pop _OS Cosmic Desktop to Make Use of Iced Rust Toolkit Rather Than GTK

• keyboard-configurator

  15 258 7.1 Rust

  Keyboard configuration UI

  

Good. I bought Darter Pro recently and had to - business as usual under Linux - compile this and tweak that. Via things like their keyboard configurator[1] I was exposed me to Rust's GTK bindings. It wasn't pretty: the mismatch between the obviously object-oriented GTK and Rust which doesn't do (and doesn't want to) OOP was glaring. I understand the appeal of Rust very well, and I'm happy they write their drivers and (parts of) firmware in it, but it's about as fit for OOP-based GUI as Go and Erlang. Which is to say - not very much.

[1] https://github.com/pop-os/keyboard-configurator

• nextspace

  18 1,853 9.6 Objective-C

  NeXTSTEP-like desktop environment for Linux

I described some of my feelings on the matter fairly recently here:

https://www.theregister.com/2022/05/17/linux_desktop_feature...

My personal preference, and what I'm writing on right now, is Unity.

I am also very fond of the ROX Desktop.

What would I really like to see? Well, barring attempts to just rip up everything and start again for no good reason, I think there would be a lot of mileage in recreating some of the classic UIs of the past that many people have loved.

* Classic MacOS was a sublime UI, with a lot of subtle non-obvious features. In its way it was far more polished than Mac OS X, even now.

* OS/2 2.x's Workplace Shell was not one of my personal favourites, but it had some excellent design features, and was loved by many.

* I have an Amiga but I never was a big fan back in the day, but a good solid modern Amiga Workbench clone would have some mileage, and as I said in the article, there are already FOSS implementations, just not for xNix.

* GEM is FOSS now. Why not recreate DR's multitasking GEM/X on Linux, or any of the late-era multitasking GEM desktops from the Atari ST, such as Thing or TeraDesk?

One of my favourite UIs is undergoing a pretty good re-implementation effort, in the form of NeXTspace:

https://github.com/trunkmaster/nextspace

There are more than half a dozen non-Windows-like desktop metaphors. Is that enough for you or shall I find some more? :-)

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