LIBCOSMIC

A platform toolkit based on iced for creating applets and applications for the COSMIC™ desktop.

Documentation

• API Documentation: Automatically generated from this repository via cargo doc
• libcosmic Book: A reference for learning libcosmic

Templates

• https://github.com/pop-os/cosmic-app-template: Application project template

Dependencies

While libcosmic is written entirely in Rust, some of its dependencies may require shared system library headers to be installed. On Pop!_OS, the following dependencies are all that's necessary compile a typical COSMIC project:

sudo apt install cargo cmake just libexpat1-dev libfontconfig-dev libfreetype-dev libxkbcommon-dev pkgconf

Examples

Some examples are included in the examples directory to to kickstart your COSMIC adventure. To run them, you need to clone the repository with the following commands:

git clone https://github.com/pop-os/libcosmic
cd libcosmic

If you have already cloned the repository, run these to sync with the latest updates:

git fetch origin
git checkout master
git reset --hard origin/master

The examples may then be run by their cargo project names, such as just run application.

Cargo Features

Available cargo features to choose from:

• a11y: Experimental accessibility support.
• animated-image: Enables animated images from the image crate.
• debug: Enables addtional debugging features.
• smol: Uses smol as the preferred async runtime.
  • Conflicts with tokio
• tokio: Uses tokio as the preferred async runtime.
  • If unset, the default executor defined by iced will be used.
  • Conflicts with smol
• wayland: Wayland-compatible client windows.
  • Conflicts with winit
• winit: Cross-platform and X11 client window support
  • Conflicts with wayland
• wgpu: GPU accelerated rendering with WGPU.
  • By default, softbuffer is used for software rendering.
• xdg-portal: Enables XDG portal dialog integrations.

Project Showcase

• COSMIC App Library
• COSMIC Applets
• COSMIC Launcher
• COSMIC Notifications
• COSMIC Panel
• COSMIC Text Editor
• COSMIC Settings

Licence

Licensed under the Mozilla Public License 2.0.

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