COSMIC, the Linux desktop that can look and work however you dang well like, is adding more bling. System76 co-founder Carl Richell has given us our first look at the ‘Frosted Glass’ effect coming to the COSMIC desktop in Epoch 2 (as the desktop releases are named): System76’s engineering team is opting to use a ‘more performant’ Dual Kawase blur, commonly used in gaming, to handle the dynamic effect. This apparently offers a ‘close approximation’ of Gaussian blur, but is not as resource intensive. That’s important. Flashy UI effects often involve a performance hit and, more keenly, a knock-on effect […]
Source: https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/01/cosmic-desktop-frosted-glass-effect
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Source: https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/01/cosmic-desktop-frosted-glass-effect
Aggregated via Linux News
