Buddies Of Budgie has published the Budgie 10.8.1 desktop environment update. The user environment is formed by separately supplied components with the implementation of the Budgie Desktop desktop, a set of Budgie Desktop View icons, an interface for configuring the Budgie Control Center system (a fork of GNOME Control Center) and a screen saver Budgie Screensaver (a fork of gnome-screensaver). The project code is distributed under the GPLv2 license. Distributions that you can use to try out Budgie include Ubuntu Budgie, Fedora Budgie, Solus, GeckoLinux, and EndeavourOS.
Budgie uses the Budgie Window Manager (BWM) to manage windows, which is an extension of the core 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.
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.
Source: opennet.ru