This is just a very quick and short review of using the "Miracle" Desktop in Fedora, I suppose it would be very similar in other distro's as well.
I didn't actually install this to a VM, I was just running the "Live" version to get a quick "look and feel" for it.
When you first login in, you see a very minimalist desktop, the only clue of how to use the desktop is the Gnome like rubiks cube on the left panel. I do have to say, while I generally like Fedora, I'm not a fan of the default background in Fedora 42. It can be changed of course.
Clicking on the rubiks cube will bring up all the applications installed, again this is simply the live version, so there isn't a lot. A lot of this looks familiar as some other desktops, again this seems very "Gnomish" to me. You may be wondering what "foot" is, that is just the terminal/console.
It only runs under Wayland, and it's very minimalist. It doesn't have many features, but it is very low resource. Why do I need a client and server? This is like having a master session that I can connect multiple client to, you don't have to run it this way, it does run in standalone mode.
There is a "filter" mode. If I click on "System Tools", I only see these applications. I would think installing more of these would populate more icons in the list.
If I click on one application it auto-fills the entire screen. If I click on another application while the first application is already open, it auto-tiles the second window. I do like this feature over traditional Gnome because I can at least see applications side by side. One unusual thing, is that you get these different colored tiling sqares around the application windows. You see, green, magenta and a aqua color in some of these screenshots.
If I open three applications, I get 3 tiled windows. There is no option to move or resize them. One thing I did notice, is that my "close button" was not visible, so not I can close my browser. I did still see the little "x" on in the corner for my volume control, so I was able to close that, and then I could see the "close x" for my browser again. I mentioned earlier that the foot terminal was minimal. It's so minimal it doesn't have a close button on the window. The only way to exit the terminal, it type "exit" or "quit". I could see this being a problem if you had a long running, or hung process. You have to open yet another window, find the process and then kill it.
All in all, everything seems to work. I didn't really have any problems. I do still prefer floating windows I can resize, move around and layer if I want to. But I could see how some people might like this and even prefer it over Gnome.
Edit: As I was closing this VM, I couldn't find a "power off" or "log-out" button anywhere, it's possible I just missed it, but it wasn't obvious. I ended up opening a terminal and typing shutdown.
I didn't actually install this to a VM, I was just running the "Live" version to get a quick "look and feel" for it.
When you first login in, you see a very minimalist desktop, the only clue of how to use the desktop is the Gnome like rubiks cube on the left panel. I do have to say, while I generally like Fedora, I'm not a fan of the default background in Fedora 42. It can be changed of course.
Clicking on the rubiks cube will bring up all the applications installed, again this is simply the live version, so there isn't a lot. A lot of this looks familiar as some other desktops, again this seems very "Gnomish" to me. You may be wondering what "foot" is, that is just the terminal/console.
It only runs under Wayland, and it's very minimalist. It doesn't have many features, but it is very low resource. Why do I need a client and server? This is like having a master session that I can connect multiple client to, you don't have to run it this way, it does run in standalone mode.
There is a "filter" mode. If I click on "System Tools", I only see these applications. I would think installing more of these would populate more icons in the list.
If I click on one application it auto-fills the entire screen. If I click on another application while the first application is already open, it auto-tiles the second window. I do like this feature over traditional Gnome because I can at least see applications side by side. One unusual thing, is that you get these different colored tiling sqares around the application windows. You see, green, magenta and a aqua color in some of these screenshots.
If I open three applications, I get 3 tiled windows. There is no option to move or resize them. One thing I did notice, is that my "close button" was not visible, so not I can close my browser. I did still see the little "x" on in the corner for my volume control, so I was able to close that, and then I could see the "close x" for my browser again. I mentioned earlier that the foot terminal was minimal. It's so minimal it doesn't have a close button on the window. The only way to exit the terminal, it type "exit" or "quit". I could see this being a problem if you had a long running, or hung process. You have to open yet another window, find the process and then kill it.
All in all, everything seems to work. I didn't really have any problems. I do still prefer floating windows I can resize, move around and layer if I want to. But I could see how some people might like this and even prefer it over Gnome.
Edit: As I was closing this VM, I couldn't find a "power off" or "log-out" button anywhere, it's possible I just missed it, but it wasn't obvious. I ended up opening a terminal and typing shutdown.
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