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?
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
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
I’ve not tried it in a while, do they have infinite horizontal tiling?
I usually don’t mind using apps made for another DE as long as their UIs are minimal enough for my taste
however, while I was using COSMIC I felt like it really needed a GUI Log Viewer, it’s the kind of thing that sound clearly tailored for the user base COSMIC aims to achieve
GNOME one is nice, but libcosmic apps handle COSMIC tiling better
A font viewer, character map app and image / pdf viewer are three clear missing links.
Could you potentially port Hexchat to Cosmic?
an image viewer with the feature set and workflow of irfanview on windows.
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.
