Joshua Strobl, a key developer of the Budgie project, has posted a proposal to start building official Fedora Linux Spin builds with the Budgie userland. The Budgie SIG is founded to maintain packages with Budgie and form a new build. A spin edition of Fedora with Budgie is planned to ship starting with the release of Fedora Linux 38. The proposal has not yet been reviewed by the FESCo (Fedora Engineering Steering Committee), which is responsible for the technical part of the development of the Fedora distribution.
The Budgie environment was initially focused on use in the Solus distribution, but has since evolved into a distribution-independent project that has additionally started distributing packages for Arch Linux and Ubuntu. The Ubuntu Budgie edition became official in 2016, but the use of Budgie in Fedora has been largely neglected, and official packages for Fedora have only been shipping since Fedora 37. Budgie is based on GNOME technologies and its own implementation of the GNOME Shell (in the next Budgie 11 branch). plan to separate the functionality of the desktop from the layer that provides visualization and output of information, which will allow abstraction from specific graphical toolkits and libraries, and implement full support for the Wayland protocol).
To manage windows, Budgie uses the Budgie Window Manager (BWM), which is an extended modification of the basic Mutter plugin. Budgie is based on a panel that is similar in organization to the classic desktop panels. All panel elements are applets, which allows you to flexibly customize the composition, change the layout and replace the implementations of the main panel elements to your liking. Available applets include the classic application menu, task switcher, open window list area, virtual desktop view, power management indicator, volume control applet, system status indicator, and clock.
Source: opennet.ru