Cosmic Desktop Alpha 6 published with many changes

A new alpha publication of the Emergent Rost-based cosmic desktop environment of System76 has a coupling of important improvements, error fixes and new functions in tow.

Although Cosmic is a work at work (i.e. incomplete, incomplete and without a polish), some fearless people already use it as their daily driver's car, most people who are concerned with trying beta.

Nevertheless, these monthly (ISH) Alpha milestones offer an easy way to look through the portal to see how the ecosystem of the cosmic desktop -UI-, UX and burgeoning app -App develops.

In the following I am the remarkable (i.e. visible) changes Cosmic Alpha 6 offers. not An overview, introduction or review of the entire cosmic desktop.

Cosmic de Alpha 6 changes

accessibility

Failure functions are important in almost all Linux desktop environments. Cosmic is no exception. In fact, System76 has undertaken to ensure that the first stable publication of Cosmic de (called “Epoch 1”) covers the essential accessibility requirements.

To which the cosmic alpha 6 is expanded with a new one Desktop zoom Special feature. This can be activated in some species: via Settings> Accessibility; of the accessibility Applet in the panel; or about super + =Present super + - -or super + Mouse -Scroll key combinations.

Screen reader and screen enlargement circuits are now also available in the accessibility Applet for easier access and an abbreviation to jump to the dedicated Settings> Accessibility Panel.

Workflow

New icon size and grid distance options are available Desktop Take a look at the settings and offer users more options to optimize the cosmic desk opera experience according to your wishes. The literal desktop itself now supports the file manager to fall files on him.

Leads in the Cosmic launcher Become scrollbar if more than 8 entries/matches are returned for a query.

In addition, use the launcher to trigger Switch off, restart or unsubscribe Trigger actions a countdown timer until you run Performance Applet behave.

Work areas are an essential part of the workflow of many people, and this sixth alpha changes to improve experience to use them.

The work area overview is now scrollable. The overview is ended as soon as a work area or an empty area has been clicked. Preview work areas (in horizontal mode) display the name and number; And minimized windows can be pulled between the work areas and dropped.

With high -resolution ads are always common, so that capable scaling options are also required. Comsic Alpha 6 introduces new “additional scale options” to support more precise scaling requirements, which increases 5% to 20% in addition to the existing scaling values.

Finally, click on a notification toast in the notification Applet Now take it directly to the application that the alarm has generated and save you the effort to switch it through or start manually – it is the small periods as well as the big self.

App changes

The Cosmic files Finally supports file managers tab Completion in the location bar during manual entry; home And End Buttons are now jumping to the first or last article; Drag selection -Scrolling is now support. And password -protected zippers can be extracted and compressed.

Cosmic processingThe native text editor, adds an option “Change all changes again”, scroll view when you pull a cursor to select many text (if necessary) to highlight all matches in “finding” search inquiries, and calls for the auth password On when you try to save a file to a regular place.

Introduced in Cosmic Alpha 5, the one that Cosmic player Recognize the user interface with a user -friendly “empty status” that shows an “Open” key and adds a “file” menu with a small row of options. If the player window is changed less than a certain width, the search bar moves into a second row.

Use music fans Cosmic player Listening tracks will be pleased to see – literally – that the latest version shows track information and art in the main view. It also adds Mpris support to show the active track name, artist and album art in the sound Applet.

Over and beyond

Some other remarkable improvements/optimizations in Cosmic Alpha 6 include

• Copy/paste with the implemented medium mouse button
• Open without replaced Fira Sans As the standard font of Cosmic
• Noto sans mono is now monospace (terminal) font by default
• Reduced memory consumption reduced across all cosmic apps and Applets
• “Window pulled on edges” Setting in the window management
• Settings Enables the change in the standard text editor

And since this desktop is still a formative work, error deposits include:

• The update rates now apply correctly in Settings > Display
• Multi-Window app Spread Thumbnails adapt to the Windows size
• The compositor is now playing well with KVM -Switches
• Cosmic files Now enables the root folder to the sidebar
• Cosmic terminal Graun's menu options if they cannot be used
• Fix an error that causes steam to crash
• Battery fully charged symbol changed
• The automatic color calculation for topics has been updated
• In the calendar widget, click on further/previous month in the previous month no longer choose the day

A total of further welcome systems of updates – updates that everyone who already executes Pop! _OS 24.04 Alpha, have received in the past 4 weeks (open Cosmic Store> Upgrades To get this if they have not been updated apt).

Try pop! _OS 24.04 with cosmic alpha 6

If you want to try out the cosmic desktop, you can simply do this as a new pop!

Download the ISO from the System76 website, then flash onto a USB, an SD card, etc. and start real hardware or start in a VM for a safe game.

If you keep an eye on the cosmic desktop progress, let me know in the comments what you think in the comments, together with the top function or option, which you hope to be added soon!