Buddies of Budgie, which oversees the development of the project after its separation from the Solus distribution, introduced The release of the desktop budgie 10.6.3 . Budgie 10.6.x continues to develop a classic code base based on GNOME technology and GNOME Shell shell. Subsequently, the start of the development of the Budgie 11 branch is expected, in which they plan to separate the functionality of the desktop from the layer that ensures the visualization and withdrawal of information, which will allow us to abstract from specific graphic Tulkites and libraries, and implement the full support of the Wayland protocol. The project code is distributed under the GPLV2 license. To familiarize yourself with Budgie, you can use distributions such as ubuntu budgie , solus , geckolinux and endeavouros .
Budgie controls BUDGIE Window Manager (BWM), which is an extended modification of the base plug -in Mutter, is used to control the BUDGIE. The basis of Budgie is a panel close to organizing work to classic desktop panels. All the elements of the panel are applets, which allows you to flexibly configure the composition, change the placement and replace the implementation of the main elements of the panel to your taste. Among the accessible applets, the classic application menu, tasks switching system, area with open windows, viewing virtual desktops, power control indicator, volume control indicator, system status indicator and hours.
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The main changes:
- The initial support of the GNOME 43 components has been added, the release of which is scheduled for September 21. Also added support for the 11th edition of the API composite manager Mutter. GNOME 43 support made it possible to form packages for the Fedora RAWHIDE repository and prepare packages for the autumn release of Fedora Linux, which will be delivered from GNOME 43.
- Improved applet with the implementation of Workspace Applet, in which the setting appeared to set the scale of scaling of the elements of the desktop.
- Improved selection of dialogs with messages requiring user confirmation.
- When changing the screenshot parameters, the output of the dialogue that informs the user about the need to restart the session.
- The emergency completion of the clock with the clock with the passage to set your own time zone.
- In the internal theme of the design, the support of the marks shown when displaying the submenu was implemented.
- A branch of 10.7 develops in parallel, in which the menu has been significantly processed and the code for working with design topics is improved.