It will be possible to configure COSMIC to look like Unity out of the box. There’s only a few panel applets that need to be implemented to make the experience 1:1.

  • cygnus@lemmy.ca
    4·
    2 years ago

    This looks great. Is there also an easy way to make it work like “dash to panel”, with open apps in the top taskbar area?

    • Michael Murphy (S76)@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      81·
      2 years ago

      Yes, you can do anything with COSMIC’s dock and panel. No extensions needed. If an applet exists on the system, you can embed it into your panel or dock.

      • cygnus@lemmy.ca
        4·
        2 years ago

        Whoa, nice. Sounds like the best of GNOME and KDE combined, plus extra goodies like tiling. I’m not sure I can give up the AUR so I hope I can use this on Arch one day.

        • Quack Doc@lemmy.world
          4·
          2 years ago

          you already can, While cosmic stuff is on the AUR i’ve been having issues with it so I use my own scripts I have here https://github.com/Quackdoc/pkgbuild-scripts/tree/Master/cosmic-epoch

          you can add the repo as a paru repo if you have it;

          [quackpkg]
Url = https://github.com/Quackdoc/pkgbuild-scripts.git
#Path = /home/quack/code/pkgbuild-scripts
Depth = 4

          then install it using paru -S --rebuild cosmic-applibrary-git cosmic-bg-git cosmic-comp-git cosmic-edit-git cosmic-files-git cosmic-greeter-git cosmic-icons-git cosmic-launcher-git cosmic-notifications-git cosmic-osd-git cosmic-panel-git cosmic-randr-git cosmic-screenshot-git cosmic-session-git cosmic-settings-daemon-git cosmic-settings-git cosmic-store-git cosmic-term-git cosmic-workspaces-epoch-git xdg-desktop-portal-cosmic-git

          you will also need cosmic-applets-git I need to patch mine to disable LTO=fat with LTO=thin in cargo toml so it’s not part of the above command. Note I haven’t done a clean build on these, but they should mostly work. if you run into any issues lemme know and I can try and fix them.

          cosmic-greeter can be enabled with cosmic-greeter.service I think you need to manually install greetd im not sure I have added it to deps. using cosmic-greeter isn’t necessary however.

          EDIT: it is somewhat likely that I may have messed something up, but as it stands i’m currently actively using cosmic comp right now

  • NotSteve_@lemmy.ca
    4·
    2 years ago

    Are there any plans for enabling a global menu like Unity had or if writing an extension for one is possible? I miss it every day 😅.

    It’s looking great though! I’m very hyped to try it

  • Beefy-Tootz@lemmy.world
    3·
    2 years ago

    This is what I’ve been chasing for a while. Bspwm like tiling with a unity like interface for the status bar, dock, system management, etc. I’ve been debating trying this through xfce or kde but havent had the spoons to give it a go

  • Wes_Dev@lemmy.ml
    2·
    2 years ago

    Nice!

    Needs the unified menu for the active/maximized window at the top. Else, it’s perfect.