System76 Releases COSMIC Alpha 7
With scores of bug fixes and a really cool workspaces feature, COSMIC is looking to soon migrate from alpha to beta.
System76 has released the latest alpha version of its COSMIC desktop with plenty of bug fixes and features.
First off, there's the usual round of bug fixes that help bring even more stability and reliability to the desktop. But this isn't just about squashing bugs, as Alpha 7 has a few new tricks up its sleeve. For example, there's the newly minted ability to not only click and drag a workspace to reorder it, but you can also pin a workspace so it can't be moved.
Then there are the new accessibility features, including high contrast mode, color filters, color inversion, and mono sound. The desktop magnifier has also been improved such that both the overlay and Super + Scroll can be disabled, as well as various improvements.
COSMIC also now has tooltips, which appear when you mouse over an item in the app tray, workspaces, app library, and launcher. As well, there are now global shortcuts for applications, which allow you to use an application-specific shortcut, even if that app is not in focus.
Other improvements/additions include scaling optimizations, improved shortcuts, seek-ahead search in COSMIC files, a left-right balance scale added to sound settings, and tons of bug fixes.
You can read all about the changes in the official alpha 7 release notes and download an ISO from the official COSMIC site.
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