I’m currently using the COSMIC DE and been loving it so far. I have some experience in rust, so I want to try and make an app for cosmic (no guarantees).
Any recommendations?
KDE Connect
I have that on my pop os cosmic? I’ve only used it for texting but it’s worked fine for me
Cool
I don’t think the desktop enviroment affects compatibility at all, I’m very sure it’s mostly just integration and it looking pretty. except stuff that’s part of the DE. Also, sorry for answering to a week old comment i didn’t check until now that I’m editing.
True it’s not the best looking ui, but gets the job done
a cool and simple idea that is still missing for cosmic is an emoji selector
check cosmic-utils to make sure you’re not recreating a project that already exists.
edit: there is actually a archived emoji selector project. Also there are more projects listed here
really missing a gui for setting file associations in 2026?
Doesn’t cosmic files already support this feature?
Right-click -> Show details -> Open with
sure, but only for that one event, it doesn’t let you persist the preference from there
I found this completely maddening when I had a folder full of random videos with various codecs. I had a video player installed that could handle all of them but half of them would open in one video player, a few in another and the rest tried to open in a web browser and failed.
Damn, I dont even know how to do this without KDE XD
A font viewer, character map app and image / pdf viewer are three clear missing links.
a nightlight is my biggest peeve with it. also the lack of tabs and more dolphinesque features in its file browser. would be great to have file previews for less common files like .stls. runs great otherwise
i also think something like spectacle for kde but for cosmic would be fantastic, frankly spectacle is close to best in class. only competition it has is probably google’s android assistant with circle to search and other convenience features of that nature. and of course sharex on windows.
ive been considering writing up some accessibility software for cosmic, mostly stuff like screen readers, local llm based screen explainers (describes images automatically to a blind user) etc.
