Sometimes if feel like they are wasting their time and effort on things like terminal, text editor, etc. We dont need those in a DE. There are already some amazing terminals and text editors and such. They should focus most of their time on DE stuff like the window manager, dock,settings, etc. And create a great minimal DE with great functionality.
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It wouldn't be possible for us to build a platform toolkit, or the COSMIC platform itself, without a text editor or terminal. It would also be deeply embarrassing if we release our desktop without them. Imagine telling people they need to switch to a TTY or use a software center to install a plain text editor or terminal. It is thanks to the text editor project that we have first class text rendering across the Rust GUI ecosystem now. Without it, we wouldn't have been achieve proper bidrectional text rendering or ligatures. The text editor project also made the terminal possible, and now any application that we develop in the future can have proper text editing widgets and embedded terminals.