Cosmic DE
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Not the new spin, but I've been running cosmic installed on the standard gnome fedora 41 (now 42) for over two months now and I'm happy with it. Fedora just updated to alpha 7 so we'll see if it's fixed the minor issues I had. The bluetooth widget hasn't failed since that one time it did, will let the battery drain soon and see if it notifies on low battery, the file explorer searches upon typing now which is great and was the only real usability niggle I had relative to nautilus (prior version you had to click the magnifying glass first). My use case is heavily minimalist so YMMV, but the experience has been near-flawless.
Let the battery drain and it didn't notify, in fact there have been no notifications at all for a while I just didn't notice. It could be a consequence of installing cosmic over gnome (notification server still hooked into gnome somehow?). I can get a notification if I intentionally crash the cosmic-screenshot program (by cancelling mid-interactive execution without saving a screenshot, for whatever reason it panics on exit in that case), also using the tool notify-send to generate my own notification works.
notify-send working seems to rule out a bad notification server setup (according to this https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Desktop_notifications ). So I'm not sure what's going on. Regardless, notifications might be iffy. If you try the spin it'll be interesting to see how notifications behave there.
notify-send working seems to rule out a bad notification server setup (according to this https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Desktop_notifications ). So I'm not sure what's going on. Regardless, notifications might be iffy. If you try the spin it'll be interesting to see how notifications behave there.
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Not for a long time. Might give it another test.
I'm still on cosmic on standard fedora and recently switched to beta. I haven't had many issues, and TBH the muscle memory has kicked in so maybe I'm forgetting something.
What has been fixed: Opening a video now properly focuses so keyboard shortcuts work, in alpha I had to do win+shift+arrow to move the window before it focused to the point that they worked. The file manager now appears to handle sshfs mounts where before I resorted to nautilus. The file manager also now handles a fileshare USB mount with my android phone, before I resorted to nautilus.
Still buggy: When you scroll the file manager below the files on screen, the focused file is one too low so you can't see it and have to go one past then back up.
New issue: The titlebar of a video is now multiline if the filename is large enough, which does not fit the bar
Anything not mentioned "just works" I guess, YMMV. It's snappy and low memory footprint and hasn't crashed, and while I'm not using tiling as such there's keyboard shortcuts to snap windows to quarter/half/full locations which is good enough for me.
What has been fixed: Opening a video now properly focuses so keyboard shortcuts work, in alpha I had to do win+shift+arrow to move the window before it focused to the point that they worked. The file manager now appears to handle sshfs mounts where before I resorted to nautilus. The file manager also now handles a fileshare USB mount with my android phone, before I resorted to nautilus.
Still buggy: When you scroll the file manager below the files on screen, the focused file is one too low so you can't see it and have to go one past then back up.
New issue: The titlebar of a video is now multiline if the filename is large enough, which does not fit the bar
Anything not mentioned "just works" I guess, YMMV. It's snappy and low memory footprint and hasn't crashed, and while I'm not using tiling as such there's keyboard shortcuts to snap windows to quarter/half/full locations which is good enough for me.