System76 continue building up their desktop environment COSMIC, with a 7th Alpha release now available for testing built on top of Pop!_OS 24.04 LTS alpha.
Even though I’m firmly happy with the latest KDE Plasma, because it does everything I need, I’m still quite keen to see the finished product when it comes to COSMIC as they’re doing some pretty interesting stuff with it.
Pictured – COSMIC Alpha 7
In the latest release they’ve tweaked Workspaces so you can click and drag them around and you can pin them to ensure they stick around even when empty too. There’s also various new accessibility features they’ve highlighted:
- High Contrast Mode uses a high-contrast theme affecting various elements for easier visibility — calculated automatically by COSMIC’s theming system using a specialized method.
- Color Filters add a filter to address common forms of colorblindness: Deuteranopia, Protanopia, and Tritanopia. For those with sensitive eyesight, a grayscale filter is also available.
- Color Inversion changes theme colors using a different calculation for the purpose of helping those affected by colorblindness differentiate between like colors.
- Mono Sound aids those with hearing loss by combining left-right sound channels into a single channel for both ears. We plan to add more accessibility features to COSMIC in future releases!
There’s also improvements to the magnifier, global shortcuts for applications even when they’re not in focus, improved fractional scaling for XWayland, there’s a new seek ahead search option for their file manager, new sound settings and lots of bug fixes.
See more in their blog post.
Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
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