COSMIC Desktop Extras: a Windows-style taskbar and other helpers for Pop!_OS

After many years on Windows I moved my main machine to Pop!_OS 24.04 with System76’s new COSMIC desktop. COSMIC is fast, written in Rust and pleasant to use, but a few habits did not survive the move. I wanted a taskbar that shows the windows of the workspace I am on, Super+D to get to the desktop, and windows that stay on their workspace when I log in again. So I built those, and I put them together in one repository: COSMIC Desktop Extras. Every tool installs on its own and uninstalls back to stock COSMIC, so you can take only what you need. The taskbar COSMIC ships a dock that groups windows by app, and a “Minimized Windows” applet. Neither tells me at a glance which windows I have open on the current workspace. The taskbar does: one item per window, with the app icon, the title and a second line that says something useful. The second line comes from the first source that has something to say: the tab count of Firefox, COSMIC Terminal and COSMIC Files windows (“3 tabs”, “14…

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