COSMIC Store Prototype

Michael Murphy (S76)@lemmy.world to Linux@lemmy.ml – 188 points –

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/13038090

https://fosstodon.org/@soller/112083947500126938

COSMIC Store is coming along quickly, though there is still a lot left to do. It loads nearly instantly, because it uses bitcode to cache appstream data in an optimized format. It uses very little memory compared to the Pop Shop. Searches can be performed live as they are done in parallel. Searching for "e" takes 5.5 ms on my desktop and returns 4601 results.

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KDE?

What about it

it is one of many non-GNOME GUIs

Not looking for another DE, just a package manager. But thank you.

So why did you mention Gnome? It's also not a package manager

Is it a real package manager or a reskin of aptitude?

It's a DE

Neither cosmic store nor gnome store is a DE. That's the question I was asking. If the mentioned store was a package manager or a high level GUI for an existing package manager.

I'm honecsltly curious since as far as I knew, gnome should interact with existing package managers, be it aptitude, pacman or yum

He didn't say "Gnome software", he said "Gnome" which is a DE.

You are completely right, I guess my mind blanked. Sorry, my app doesn't show enough context chain comments for responses and I had to look up the comment separately to make sense of the chain.

Because Gnome Software is.

how about the old apt-get update && apt-get upgrade || apt-get install shit? or maybe you're more into dnf install shit || dnf update --refresh?

Well that works but the idea of a package manager is that I don't have to do that.

Also I have to do that for each independent repository.

Well, if to you "GNOME" means "GNOME Software", then surely "KDE" can mean "KDE Discover".

Well, if to you "GNOME" means "GNOME Software"

It doesn't. It's called context.