@ianh This sounds fun.
What I want to do is wait for Cosmic DE to be viable and then just start forking it heavily. The important thing here is that Cosmic DE is in Rust, which means that patching it sounds doable instead of miserably exhausting. (I don't actually like Rust, per se, but I hate everything else much more)
@ianh The big issue with me writing my own DE from scratch is that I (1) get very, VERY picky about the margins on thing being precisely correct and (2) am not quite good enough at arts and crafts to get the margins right on things I make myself. It is an unfortunate combination of perosnality traits.