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    From Retrograde@fungus@amongus.com.invalid to comp.misc on Wed Oct 2 00:41:52 2024
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    From the «alpha beta go» department:
    Title: COSMIC alpha 2 released
    Author: Thom Holwerda
    Date: Mon, 30 Sep 2024 05:26:44 +0000
    Link: https://www.osnews.com/story/140824/cosmic-alpha-2-released/


    System76, the premiere Linux computer manufacturer and creator of the COSMIC desktop environment, has updated COSMIC’s Alpha release to Alpha 2. The latest release includes more Settings pages, the bulk of functionality for COSMIC Files, highly requested window management features, and considerable infrastructure work for screen reader support, as well as some notable bug fixes.
    ↫ system76’s blog[1]

    The pace of development for COSMIC remains solid, even after the first alpha release. This second alpha keeps adding a lot of things considered basic for any desktop environment, such as settings panels for power and battery, sounds, displays, and many more. It also brings window management support for focus follows cursor and cursor follows focus, which will surely please the very specific, small slice of people who swear by those. Also, you can now disable the super key.

    A major new feature that I’m personally very happy about is the “adjust density” feature. COSMIC will allow you to adjust the spacing between the various user interface elements so you can choose to squeeze more information on your screen, which is one of the major complaints I have about modern UI design in macOS, Windows, and GNOME. Being able to adjust this to your liking is incredibly welcome, especially combined with COSMIC’s ability to change from
    ’rounded’ UI elements to ‘square’ UI elements.

    The file manager has also been vastly, vastly improved, tons of bugs were fixed, and much, much more. It seems COSMIC is on the right path, and I can’t wait to try out the first final result once it lands.

    Links:
    [1]: https://blog.system76.com/post/cosmic-alpha-2-press-release (link)
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  • From candycanearter07@candycanearter07@candycanearter07.nomail.afraid to comp.misc on Wed Oct 2 19:30:04 2024
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    Retrograde <fungus@amongus.com.invalid> wrote at 00:41 this Wednesday (GMT):
    From the «alpha beta go» department:
    Title: COSMIC alpha 2 released
    Author: Thom Holwerda
    Date: Mon, 30 Sep 2024 05:26:44 +0000
    Link: https://www.osnews.com/story/140824/cosmic-alpha-2-released/


    System76, the premiere Linux computer manufacturer and creator of the COSMIC desktop environment, has updated COSMIC’s Alpha release to Alpha 2. The latest release includes more Settings pages, the bulk of functionality for COSMIC Files, highly requested window management features, and considerable infrastructure work for screen reader support, as well as some notable bug fixes.
    ↫ system76’s blog[1]

    The pace of development for COSMIC remains solid, even after the first alpha release. This second alpha keeps adding a lot of things considered basic for any desktop environment, such as settings panels for power and battery, sounds,
    displays, and many more. It also brings window management support for focus follows cursor and cursor follows focus, which will surely please the very specific, small slice of people who swear by those. Also, you can now disable the super key.

    A major new feature that I’m personally very happy about is the “adjust density” feature. COSMIC will allow you to adjust the spacing between the various user interface elements so you can choose to squeeze more information on your screen, which is one of the major complaints I have about modern UI design in macOS, Windows, and GNOME. Being able to adjust this to your liking is incredibly welcome, especially combined with COSMIC’s ability to change from
    ’rounded’ UI elements to ‘square’ UI elements.

    Why don't more programs give that option? I always wished I could just
    make elements a little more/less padded

    The file manager has also been vastly, vastly improved, tons of bugs were fixed, and much, much more. It seems COSMIC is on the right path, and I can’t
    wait to try out the first final result once it lands.

    Links:
    [1]: https://blog.system76.com/post/cosmic-alpha-2-press-release (link)


    Me too! I might just switch off XFCE.
    --
    user <candycane> is generated from /dev/urandom
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  • From Rich@rich@example.invalid to comp.misc on Wed Oct 2 20:48:41 2024
    From Newsgroup: comp.misc

    candycanearter07 <candycanearter07@candycanearter07.nomail.afraid> wrote:
    Retrograde <fungus@amongus.com.invalid> wrote at 00:41 this Wednesday (GMT):
    A major new feature that I’m personally very happy about is the
    “adjust density” feature. COSMIC will allow you to adjust the
    spacing between the various user interface elements so you can
    choose to squeeze more information on your screen, which is one of
    the major complaints I have about modern UI design in macOS,
    Windows, and GNOME. Being able to adjust this to your liking is
    incredibly welcome, especially combined with COSMIC’s ability to
    change from ’rounded’ UI elements to ‘square’ UI elements.

    Why don't more programs give that option? I always wished I could
    just make elements a little more/less padded

    Because some (Gnome, cough cough) are so opinionated that they know
    better than you what you want that to offer such would be go against
    their very "they know better than you" opinion.
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