A large change to cosmic-comp has landed that improves touchscreen support. Further changes will be required for COSMIC applications. The on-screen keyboard, which is not yet included in releases, has seen a lot of work as well and will be released soon.
Here is a summary of the changes since the last tag. For full details, see epoch-1.7.0...epoch-1.8.0
- Translation updates and dependency updates for many projects
- cosmic-applets
- Fix microphone volume applying to speaker instead of microphone: pop-os/cosmic-applets#1533
- Show custom bluetooth device name: pop-os/cosmic-applets#1534
- Fix pixelated icons: pop-os/cosmic-applets#1546
- cosmic-app-library
- Center app names: pop-os/cosmic-app-library#400
- Fix some packaging issues: pop-os/cosmic-app-library#399 and pop-os/cosmic-app-library#401
- cosmic-comp
- Update Smithay, which improves mouse capture: pop-os/cosmic-comp#2759
- Allow X11 windows to start minimized: pop-os/cosmic-comp#2656
- Fix screenshot tool crashing (due to corner radius issues): pop-os/cosmic-comp#2788 and pop-os/cosmic-comp#2816
- Configurable server side decorations: pop-os/cosmic-comp#2736
- Check all connectors for primary GPU, fixes issues with some hybrid GPU laptops: pop-os/cosmic-comp#2624
- Do not magnify cursor when it is grabbing a window: pop-os/cosmic-comp#2790
- Fix sluggish steam overlays by ensuring X11 windows keep getting frame callbacks: pop-os/cosmic-comp#2800
- Update EI modifiers when keyboard layout changes, ensures cosmic-osk shows the correct layout: pop-os/cosmic-comp#2815
- Support for grabs when using touch input, which vastly improves touchscreen support in COSMIC: pop-os/cosmic-comp#2725
- Align the corner radii order with the theme, see the screenshots for details: pop-os/cosmic-comp#2819
- Sort outputs by connector so output layout fallback is consistent: pop-os/cosmic-comp#2813
- Fix blur region not matching with app library window: pop-os/cosmic-comp#2822
- cosmic-files
- Fix drag select rectangle not redrawing: pop-os/cosmic-files#2019
- Switch to another tab only if the active tab is closed: pop-os/cosmic-files#1949
- cosmic-greeter
- Fix for multi-factor authentication: pop-os/cosmic-greeter#502
- Fix for compiling without
logindfeature: pop-os/cosmic-greeter#536
- cosmic-icons
- Update web-browser-symbolic and add printer-queue-symbolic icons: pop-os/cosmic-icons#53
- cosmic-launcher
- Fix some packaging issues: pop-os/cosmic-launcher#459 and pop-os/cosmic-launcher#462
- cosmic-osd
- Add on-screen display for keyboard layout changes: pop-os/cosmic-osd#220
- cosmic-panel
- Use the same border radius for the container and background: pop-os/cosmic-panel#678
- cosmic-player
- Fix playback of files with invalid framerates: pop-os/cosmic-player#294
- cosmic-settings
- Keep scroll position when searching and opening a submenu: pop-os/cosmic-settings#2172
- Fix display page not redrawing while dragging displays: pop-os/cosmic-settings#2180
- Support renaming bluetooth devices: pop-os/cosmic-settings#2160
- cosmic-settings-daemon
- Check every AC power input in order to determine if AC is connected: pop-os/cosmic-settings-daemon#187
- Fix external monitor brightness lagging: pop-os/cosmic-settings-daemon#184
- cosmic-workspaces-epoch
- Fix window disappearing if dragged and dropped on the same workspace: pop-os/cosmic-workspaces-epoch#322
- xdg-desktop-portal-cosmic
- Do not panic when low-level wayland error can be ignored: pop-os/xdg-desktop-portal-cosmic#349