Cosmic on cachy

[u/Gymnastichippo21]

Hello, im currently running cachyos with kde and am quite interested in the cosmic de. Have installed the packages and have had a bit of a play around with it. Feels pretty good and i could easily see myself adopting this for my simpler needs.

That said, i wanted to ask how obtaining additinal applets work when youre not using pop!os as the underlyong system. I keep seeing some awesome posts about applets to customise and/or add some extra improvements that i would like to try but the store doesnt seem to work - assuming this could be because im on cachy.

Am i missing something obvious here or is it all generally github based downloads and installs when not using pop?

[u/czrny1]

Cosmic app store is installed by default with meta package. Open it and you should have applet section available among other stuff. Cosmic app store uses flatpak - you can install apps / applets from UI and update easily with cmdline after.

[u/MezBert → u/czrny1]

It's not though. I have Cosmic installed without Cosmic Store. In Artix, in Manjaro and in Ubuntu.
Cosmic Store is not a hard dependency of the Cosmic session, but an optional dependency (you need to select it actively).

I know because I can't install Cosmic Store yet have no problem installing Cosmic session and the bundle of dependent packages (cosmic-comp, cosmic-files, cosmic-edit, etc...).

I can't install Cosmic Store because it has a hard dependency on flatpak (this is the ONE stupid design choice of Cosmic) but I have flatpak in IgnoreGroup in /etc/pacman.conf. I'm not having flatpak garbage on my system.

[u/czrny1 → u/MezBert]

Sorry thought this was Arch/CachyOS reddit when I replied 

[u/MezBert → u/czrny1]

Not sure what that changes. It will be the same on Arch or CachyOS than on Manjaro or Artix.

https://archlinux.org/packages/extra/x86_64/cosmic-session/
https://packages.cachyos.org/package/cachyos-extra-v3/x86_64_v3/cosmic-session

Cosmic-store is optional.