If it is phased updates two weeks is not uncommon. In the meantime you can try to fix the packet manager and use full-upgrade which focuses on dependencies.
Most everything in Pop's repos that is able to be built for COSMIC works OK. The settings applet being the central hub is getting fleshed out with usable toggles and functionality on a steady basis. Did you have anything specific in mind?
It varies from annoyances to more serious. Theming is a common issue. The situation is improving all the the time. Here is System76's lead developer's answer. https://lemmy.world/comment/1068614
This is great news. A file manager and hybrid editor written in Rust by System76 sounds too good to be true. Add a Rust based simple music player and I'm in heaven.
Looking at the documentation for Pipewire it seems like it's a case of "work it out yourself". Getting this integrated/functional is no small task. Nice job!
Yes, I believe theming and color options are in the pipeline. I was aiming at showing how functional the desktop was already despite being pre-alpha. I love the little stack icons they've added though.
Pop!_OS being an OEM for System76 probably means they will definitely release with a file manager GUI, but I wouldn't care if it had none at all. You should be fine to swap out the default if what you want is a Flatpak though. Alternatives include any terminal TUI like Felix and any Rust apps developed with Iced or Slint, which I would be in favor of.Both Nautilus and Felix currently work well in the pre-alpha COSMIC, but navigating in and working with the filesystem in terminal is a breeze when set up nicely. Bash is great, but I prefer Z shell (Zsh) with auto-suggestions, auto-completions, autojump and a stack of aliases and scripts.
Have you got "Show Window Titles" toggled off in Pop shell's settings? You can see in the extensions App. Or, try toggling off whatever you installed.
Having said, auto tiling is easy enough to learn. I use the desktop without any titlebars relying on keyboard shortcuts for all window management. It's a nicer workflow.
Here's a little taste of the pre-alpha COSMIC DE. Tiling is working great and stacking has been introduced. I've got four Alacritty windows in the left stack. Running from left to right a watch (ss) , the Helix editor, cmus player, and Felix file manager TUI. COSMIC is utilizing my ZSH config and autosuggestions along with autocompletions working great. The right stack is running Firefox, Librewolf Flatpak, Nautilus and COSMIC settings. Resize is working as expected too.
lol, more like just "dog in a room". You know, it's good. It's not great. It's fine. Just use it.
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If it is phased updates two weeks is not uncommon. In the meantime you can try to fix the packet manager and use
full-upgradewhich focuses on dependencies.sudo apt clean sudo apt update sudo dpkg --configure -a sudo apt install -f sudo apt full-upgrade sudo apt autoremove --purge