cross-posted from: https://programming.dev/post/8455606
If all goes well, we can release the alpha by the end of March
Now Available on NixOS!
COSMIC Terminal joins a long list of COSMIC DE projects that have been packaged for NixOS! While COSMIC DE will be the flagship desktop for Pop!_OS, it’s designed and architected for distros to build their own custom, branded user experiences. Details for distro packaging will be released at the same time as the alpha.
Development began mid-December, using the work we already did for cosmic-edit as a template. COSMIC Terminal uses the alacritty library, but the frontend interface is designed with our platform toolkit (libcosmic), with full support for bidrectional text and ligatures because we use cosmic-text instead of freetype.
https://fosstodon.org/@soller/111602927867586005
You can see above that between alacritty, cosmic-terminal, and gnome-terminal; cosmic-terminal was the only terminal to render correctly. Since then, we’ve given it the COSMIC treatment and now we have a tabbed interface with settings, search, etc.
https://fosstodon.org/@soller/111733526892594130
We’re still in the process of designing and implementing features, but don’t hesitate to try it out!