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Cosmoe: BeOS Class Library on Top of Wayland


A new generation of Cosmoe has arrived Cosmoe - building graphical apps reimagined The newest iteration of Cosmoe is a C++ UI library for creating rich, easy-to-code graphical apps for Wayland. It brings the benefits of the BeOS class library onto a modern kernel and display engine.

Cosmoe needs 2 main improvements to be a reliable, full-featured UI library: Stability While I've made incredible strides with getting the BeOS class libraries to talk to Wayland, much work still remains to weed out crashes and incorrect behavior. Also, for security reasons, Wayland forbids certain Window-related actions such as window positioning and centering, so that functionality can never exist.

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