KDE's VRR and XWayland fractional scaling implementations are pretty dope. Wlroots pls
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I am very excited for Pop OS to get the new Cosmic desktop. Not really a specific feature but an entirely new DE that is quite different from the others and built from the ground up in Rust. Hopefully the first version won't be totally broken and full of bugs!
There's not much I'm "dying" for in Cinnamon; it's very complete.
I wouldn't mind if the Nemo Actions system got a GUI editor. I think it's such a little known feature...if you go to ~/local/share/nemo/actions, you can add config files that can add items to the right click context menu, including but not limited to shell scripts. I have a few basic ImageMagick scripts that allow me to do things like edit images or convert them from one file format to another just by right clicking a file.
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Literally just button remapping support for my MX Ergo.
And for the fool who always comes into these threads to tell me again that I must not have tried in several years, I tried last month. Talked to the Solaar dev, tried to reach out to Logitech, literally nothing to be done.
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Wayland needs stacking window managers that aren't just KDE and Gnome. I want more things like openbox. There's labwc but that's it.
And also Wayland needs more customization programs designed around stacking window managers. Waybar, yambar, and others are all only designed for tiling window managers.
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XFCE, press f4 to open a terminal pane at the bottom of the file manager, like in KDE.
I mean... you can already open a terminal to the current directory. But I'm not sure why I would want the terminal to be opened inside the file manager?
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Some kind of easy notification system and panel/dock/taskbar notification emblems. The support for stuff like that is incredibly spotty right now and is one of the final things preventing me from switching off windows.
EDIT: Have found a decent solution to this via Dash to Panel. I have been running Zorin OS for over the last month now on my main PCs!
GNOME mouse navigation + I3/Sway keyboard navigation.
Sounds like GNOME with a tiling extension such as Forge.
bspwm - i do miss alt-tab from time to time.
I know there is a few sxkhd entries that sort of mimics it, but I miss something like gnome or cinnamon alt-tab
GNOME:
- support tags in all applications and have combined search for them (e.g. let me tag e-mails and files, and when I search for my tag the tagged emails and files show up) (AFAIK GNOME developers already said, this will never come, because it would confuse GNOME users. Apple and Apple users have this feature for years now.)
- Bring back F3 dual pane views in the file manager, having two windows side by side is not equivalent
- Integrate and polish dash to dock or dash to panel, I don't care which one just make it work perfectly OOTB.