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I wonder why they thought it necessary to build a new terminal emulator instead of just skin and contribute to alacritty or wezterm
Development began mid-December, using the work we already did for cosmic-edit as a template. COSMIC Terminal uses the alacritty library, but the frontend interface is designed with our platform toolkit (libcosmic), with full support for bidrectional text and ligatures because we use cosmic-text instead of freetype.
https://fosstodon.org/@soller/111602927867586005
You can see above that between alacritty, cosmic-terminal, and gnome-terminal; cosmic-terminal was the only terminal to render correctly. Since then, we've given it the COSMIC treatment and now we have a tabbed interface with settings, search, etc.
https://fosstodon.org/@soller/111733526892594130
We're still in the process of designing and implementing features, but don't hesitate to try it out!
Kinda seems like they want to have close integration with the rest of the desktop environment and Pop_OS but still remain modular by using the alacritty_terminal framework. I'm sure they are mostly concerned with performance on the System76 laptop hardware.