COSMIC Desktop Alpha 6 Released

New submitter TronNerd82 writes: Linuxiac reports that the 6th alpha release of the COSMIC desktop environment has been released. The new alpha release includes zooming, desktop icon management, some new scaling options, and improved accessibility features. Also included in the release are a number of bug fixes.

These include, but are not limited to:
- Fixing a crash issue in Steam, and fixing certain issues for Radeon RX GPUs
- Fixing a bug that prevented icons from appearing in screenshots
- Adding a layer of polish to the COSMIC Files application by adding folder size metadata and preventing crashes

Also of note are a number of memory usage reductions across the board. COSMIC Alpha 6 also replaces the default font, changing from Fira Sans to Open Sans, with Noto Sans Mono as the default monospace font. Additional changes can be found in System76's official announcement.

Zooming vs Scaling

[backslashdot]

Forget zoom, I want window-only scaling ability. That is, if you have a window you want to shrink or enlarge.. you should be able to hold down a key (Ctrl button or something) and then click the corner of window and drag it. The content or layout of the window should not re-format at all but it should just get large (enlage) or smaller (shrink) as-is based on the direction you're dragging the corner. The aspect ratio of the window shouldn't change either.

Re:

[FudRucker]

The aspect ratio should have an on/off switch, sometimes i want to mess with aspect ratios other times not. But mostly no, it depends on a case by case basis

And we should care about this because... ?

[greytree]

Why does the editor think we need to know about minor bug fixes and not about what this actually is and does?