Cosmic has sexy transparency effects but God the color schemes are so poorly thought through.

Out of the box their light terminal theme is flat out unreadable. Some of the chosen colors have almost no contrast.

Ugh.

And then if it is dark mode time but I pull up a terminal window that is semi transparent and it is on top of a browser window that has bright colors, again, unreadable.

Which is why transparency effects are mostly limited to cool screenshots.

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WD-42 a day ago | parent [-]

Cosmic-themes.org

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lproven a day ago | parent [-]

I don't want to have to download and apply a godsdamned thing to make my brand new software usable.

COSMIC is great and I like it, which is odd as it violates a lot of my personal preferences... but pretty it is not.

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silon42 a day ago | parent | next [-]

+1 I dropped Gnome3 when I had to download some plugins to make it usable (Alt+Tab usability fix, etc).

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WD-42 20 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

They are just single text files. But I guess complaining on the internet is easier than download a config right?

	▲	lproven 17 hours ago \| parent [-]
		1. Yes, it is. 2. There are lots of desktops. Why choose one that doesn't work the way you want when others do?