the COSMIC Desktop Environment looks AWESOME!

hello everybody this is Teka we got a good one for you today this is going to be covering some of the latest in Linux news primarily thanks to our newsletter here if you don't know we do have a newsletter that mostly covers free and open source stuff and occasionally some other Tech things here and there Nicola right here is the primary writer fantastic YouTube channel I do recommend you check him out and list newsletters actually from a couple days ago if you are interested in subscribing to this newsletter all you need to do is go down here click on subscribe it will open this up you can just go with the free one that's the newsletter pop in your name pop in your email and you're gonna get it so the first thing and probably the biggest deal to me is the latest Cosmic de updates feature panel settings and more we got a nice rundown of what's going on but all these little bits of tech news do have the links to the original sources so we can see a lot more detailed information here lots of new stuff with the cosmic de that is their new desktop environment that they're writing in Rust specifically for pop OS and we can see in this image here some of the customization options that they are going to be adding one you'll notice it looks basically identical at the default as their current Cosmic desktop environment which is basically just a bunch of extensions on top of a genome but here we have applets so you're going to be able to easily customize what is showing up and where we have workspace button application button time date input sources and a bunch of typical things that you'd expect but you are able to delete add app let's move them around very similar to the budgie desktop environment by the looks of it and in addition it looks like they've added some awesome customization options to those panels that the applets go on you could change the position the size the opacity add margins and all that so you can see here they have an example of it off to the side if we look down here they have an example I'm not personally a fan of how this one looks but you can see they kind of squished up the full width kind of dock thing up with the panel so you can use that if you would like to I really like this one or this customization of having kind of little drop down similar to what you get from the Mac or the MacBook webcams now if it was me I would do something like this and then maybe a small dock on the bottom I think that would be my perfect customization using all this and of course you could have floating which I really do like you can see they went with the lighter theme here based on the design and they have that floating dock on the bottom which I would or I generally go for as my default Preference they have their new cosmic settings which have those panel dock settings as well as keyboard input wallpaper all the stuff you'd expect in the settings application Cosmic settings is modular so there's an API in which you can code and add your own things to it if you're going to be using cosmics such as in your project or in your Custom Distribution whatever you happen to be doing and then there's a lot of stuff on HDR 8-bit color support screen readers that are not really going to be diving into at this moment and the cool thing is I do have links to the GitHub Pages for these specific components so for example this is the cosmic settings and if I scroll up here under the designs if I click on that we will get all the images we've saw but a lot more so we can see here how you go to those settings how the actual buttons for workspaces and applications are kind of a right click and giving you settings kind of similar to how KDE Works basically everything in the plasma desktop environment you can right click on and change so it seems to be that's kind of what they're going for here and I'll leave a link to this down below if you want more details on the settings how the settings are and the options that we're going to get such as the size appearance if you want gaps and whatnot and there's really a lot more in addition to some of the examples that we've seen such as this right here where I'm definitely not a fan of this one but they put the bar over here with the dock just really a bunch of examples of some of the things that you can do next up blue sky if you don't know blue sky is kind of like a alternative social media Network to Twitter which this right here is the website Blue Sky building a social internet you can sign up for the private beta ironically they do have a Twitter account here I'm personally not on it I've never tried it out but apparently it's a a decentralized kind of Federated platform that is going to try to compete in these social media space if I go back over here the main news is they open sourced the app code which whenever a company or a startup or anything does open source their software it's generally good news for the open source Community as well as overall security privacy it's really nice to know the code for the platform that you're actually using but it is important to note down here there's a blog post released saying a blue sky is a scam in which the protocol is completely controlled by Bluesky and it's much less decentralized than originally claimed and like always there's three different articles referenced here if you're interested in learning more on that going over to some good old Thunderbird news this is a email application I do need to look more into I personally haven't used it in a very long time I've been just using like mail spring and web platforms but supposedly income grew by 875 percent absolutely substantial and really good news for the open source email client here which this is a whole heck of a lot of money other big open source applications such as krita makes about eighty thousand dollars a year and there's some reasons for this one they've been more engaging and interactive with the community with blog posts newsletters things like that and I do have to kind of give a shout out and some credit to this to their I could be getting this wrong I believe he's the marketing manager Mr Jason I'm not going to try to pronounce your last name if you've ever seen and you probably have this YouTube channel Linux for everybody he is Jason you can see if I go over to videos here he has not uploaded too much and that is because his current main ordeal is working for the Thunderbird team and both him and the entire Thunderbird team have been doing absolutely phenomenal there's been a lot of stuff coming out I'm really looking forward to some of the big updates they have planned in the future but going on from there we are going to talk about Microsoft Microsoft is going to be trying to convince Firefox to switch to Bing if you don't know one of the big ways that Mozilla and Firefox make money is through their deal with Google they get eight ton of money nearly half a billion dollars a year to use Google as the default search engine within Firefox and that contract is going to be expiring soon they often renew it but with how Bing has been progressing the chat GDP or GPT Integrations is actually becoming a decent web browser it's gone from meme to something actually worth using as you can see I've been using it now the only problem is I need to change the setting because whenever I open something it opens up in a new tab and then my everything gets cluttered but basically that's happening well we're going to see what that result says how much they might pay them if they even proceed with that last but not least Fedor will not be switching from terminal to console anytime soon in the last release of The Gnome desktop environment usually all their applications kind of release with that and occasionally they switch out applications for new ones console is one of those new applications it is the alternative or the replacement for terminal and at least in the eyes of both Fedor and Ubuntu it's not yet good enough to include in their operating systems as of yet and you can see they even are quoted saying we messed up by adding console to the core before the downstreams were comfortable with it and they're even debating whether or not if they should bring back terminal as the primary terminal emulator within the ecosystem and if I go to the OMG Linux page here which we got this information from it goes over a lot of the differences here if I actually go back up to the top real quick this one is the new console and this right here is terminal you can see the newer ones kind of using the new gtk4 tab scheme it's really beautiful but if we go down to the comments here we can get some clarification on why exactly it is that some of these big name distributions are not as comfortable with it this user right here says a lot of the issues are in non-english languages that have broken rendering and cell spacing isn't working out that great and with India making up a large share of the market it is just not really a good option as of yet and then we got some big brain takes some here I am a big fan of not fixing something that isn't broken it's a dangerous mentality doesn't apply here personally I'm not sure why they didn't just update terminal with gtk4 and call it a day but again I'm not a developer I'm not on the team I'm an idiot I don't know but that is basically it for this newsletter there's a lot more newsletters if you want to kind of catch up on the news that we have been covering and again I do recommend you subscribe it is free and I've gotten rid of our patreon so if you do want to support the work we do this right here is the way to do it at 5 bucks a month there's not too much of a benefit on your guys's side as of yet I do occasionally release like video scripts early and things like that but that is all at uh your discretion so with that do get subscribed do have an absolutely wonderful day and good bye

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Keywords: linux, desktop enviorment, thunderbird, pop os, comsic desktop

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Length: 8min 50sec (530 seconds)

Published: Fri May 19 2023