I've found that COSMIC heavily rewards navigation via the keyboard rather than via the mouse. Typing super followed by the first few letters of whichever app you want takes a fraction of the time you'd need to pick out the relevant app from a dock.

The genie effect was from the original X release in like 99. If there's a patent, it should be expired.

But that's a weird line to draw for which shells you find unacceptable.

They did not say it was unacceptable.

[The Plank](https://github.com/zquestz/plank-reloaded) has the Genie effect, but it only works for Xorg.

What's the genie effect?

The window being minimized animates.

It goes from bottom to top of the window with a continuous effect, it squishes down in width then gets warped/pulled to the dock icon to minimize.

The effect is like when Genie from Aladdin enters or leaves the lamp, but without smoke.

Sorry, It is actually called magnification effect (I am not a Mac user).

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/eOrvbaKz5H4