The Buddies of Budgie organization has released the Budgie 10.8.1 desktop environment update. The user environment consists of separately distributed components: the Budgie Desktop desktop implementation, the Budgie Desktop View icon set, the Budgie Control Center system configuration interface (a fork of GNOME Control Center), and the Budgie Screensaver screen saver (a fork of gnome-screensaver). The project's code is distributed under the GPLv2 license. To try out Budgie, you can use the following distributions: Ubuntu Budgie, Fedora Budgie, Solus, GeckoLinux and EndeavourOS.
Budgie uses the Budgie Window Manager (BWM), an extended version of the core Mutter plugin, to manage windows. Budgie is based on a panel similar in functionality to classic desktop panels. All panel elements are applets, allowing for flexible configuration, rearrangement, and customization of key panel elements. Available applets include a classic application menu, task switching, an area with a list of open windows, and a preview. virtual desktops, power management indicator, volume control applet, system status indicator, and clock.
Major changes:
- The dark theme setting has been changed. Instead of the “Dark Theme” switch, which activates a dark desktop theme but does not affect the design of applications, a universal “Dark Style Preference” setting is proposed, which applications can take into account when choosing a color scheme. For example, the proposed parameter is already taken into account in the photo editing program to set the dark style.
- Added a setting for scaling icons in the system tray depending on the panel size (auto-scaling is now disabled by default). The system tray has also improved support for the StatusNotifierItem API and resolved issues in the NetworkManager and TeamViewer applets.
- Added support for keywords when searching in the application menu and program launch dialog, which allows, for example, to specify the keywords “browser”, “editor”, “performance” to display the corresponding applications.
- Improved notification system. The logic for creating and retrieving notification groups in the Raven panel has been simplified. Reduced memory consumption by switching to using GtkListBox children instead of using a hash of group bindings to application names. Improved rendering of icons in notifications.
- The Freedesktop portal system (xdg-desktop-portal), used to improve compatibility with applications that are not native to the current user environment and organize access to user environment resources from isolated applications, has been transferred to the use of the GTK portal. The change resolves issues with apps shipped in flatpak format that occurred when using xdg-desktop-portal 1.18.0+ components such as FileChooser.
- Fixed build issues on Fedora 39.
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