The Buddies Of Budgie organization, which oversees the development of the project after its separation from the Solus distribution, has unveiled the release of the Budgie 10.6.3 desktop. Budgie 10.6.x continues the development of the classic codebase based on GNOME technologies and its own implementation of the GNOME Shell. In the future, the development of the Budgie 11 branch is expected to begin, in which they plan to separate the functionality of the desktop from the layer that provides visualization and output of information, which will allow abstracting from specific graphic toolkits and libraries, and implement full support for the Wayland protocol. The project code is distributed under the GPLv2 license. You can use distributions such as Ubuntu Budgie, Solus, GeckoLinux, and EndeavourOS to get familiar with Budgie.
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:
- Added initial support for GNOME 43 components, which is scheduled for release on September 21st. Also added support for the 11th edition of the Mutter composite manager API. GNOME 43 support has enabled the packaging of the Fedora rawhide repository and the preparation of packages for the fall Fedora Linux release that will ship with GNOME 43.
- The Workspace Applet has been improved to include a setting to set the scaling factor for desktop elements.
- Improved size selection for dialogs with messages that require user confirmation.
- When changing the screen scaling parameters, a dialog is provided to inform the user of the need to restart the session.
- Fixed a crash in the clock applet when trying to set a custom time zone.
- In the internal theme, support for labels that are shown when the submenu is displayed is implemented.
- In parallel, the 10.7 branch is being developed, in which the menu has been significantly redesigned and the code for working with themes has been improved.
Source: opennet.ru