System76's COSMIC Desktop Enhancing Its Auto-Tiling

[phoronix]

Phoronix: System76's COSMIC Desktop Enhancing Its Auto-Tiling

As part of Linux hardware vendor System76's ongoing work around their COSMIC desktop for their Pop!_OS Linux distribution, recently their development team has been working on enhancing the automatic window tiling capabilities...

https://www.phoronix.com/news/System76-COSMIC-Better-Tiling

[Quackdoc]

being able to swap between tiling and normal usage is one of the best features easily that im looking forwards to

[mmstick]

The current implementation of cosmic-comp already supports per-workspace tiling, so you can have floating windows on a floating workspace and tiled windows on tiled workspaces.

[rmfx]

Can’t wait for a release. It looks very promising.
I hope S76 will be top notch at pixel perfection and workflows refinements.
I also pray for a lot of CONSISTENCY, thing that opensource doesn’t do well enough in general.

[mangeek]

I haven't used this, and i3/Sway was just too much of a PITA to customize and learn, but I do have times when I wish I could use a tiling WM that had all the features of GNOME. Perhaps GNOME can learn from this and have a tiling mode. I know there's a lot of hate for GNOME, but it seems to have the most comprehensive set of underlying services for daily-driving with Wayland.

[aviallon]

I haven't used this, and i3/Sway was just too much of a PITA to customize and learn, but I do have times when I wish I could use a tiling WM that had all the features of GNOME. Perhaps GNOME can learn from this and have a tiling mode. I know there's a lot of hate for GNOME, but it seems to have the most comprehensive set of underlying services for daily-driving with Wayland.

Well, actually, I find Plasma to work much better and much more consistently with Wayland, compared to Gnome.
With Gnome, I can't play Proton games correctly when using the Wayland session, whereas I don't have any issue when using Plasma on Wayland.

[slalomsk8er]

Can’t wait for a release. It looks very promising.
I hope S76 will be top notch at pixel perfection and workflows refinements.
I also pray for a lot of CONSISTENCY, thing that opensource doesn’t do well enough in general.

The inconsistency of Windows settings drives me nuts at work

[sarmad]

The inconsistency of Windows settings drives me nuts at work

I haven't touched Windows in over 10 years. Does it still have the dreadful Registry?

[MadWatch]

If only they added workspace grid I would be switching to COSMIC right away.

[slalomsk8er]

I haven't touched Windows in over 10 years. Does it still have the dreadful Registry?

Yes and the mmc, the Control Panel and new settings apps that look like phone/tablet apps. But it got usable as they provide PowerToys and finally a usable terminal app and also a Linux kernel in WSL2. But I still prefer to connect to my Debian workstation to get stuff done.