• XNX@slrpnk.net
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    6 months ago

    Wow amazing reply thank you! I thought pop used gnome. Will Gnome extensions continue to work once COSMIC replaces gnome? (I just really need the Dash To Panel extension haha)

    Would Pop!_OS ever rebrand to CosmicOS?

    • Michael Murphy (S76)@lemmy.worldOPM
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      6 months ago

      Pop!_OS 22.04 uses GNOME with a lot of custom extensions and patches. Pop!_OS 24.04 will switch to COSMIC.

      GNOME Shell extensions are JavaScript monkey patches that get injected directly into the gnome-shell process, which is running inside a JavaScript runtime. So they have no effect outside of GNOME Shell.

      COSMIC panels are already configurable, so there’s no need for a third party panel applet to have dock applets embedded in the panel. You can configure the panel and dock to any layout. Be that a GNOME layout, Unity layout, Mac OS layout, Windows layout, etc.

      It would be redundant to rebrand Pop!_OS to COSMIC OS. The cosmos was created by a Pop!