Budgie (desktop environment)

Budgie is a desktop environment that currently uses GNOME technologies such as GTK (> 3.x) and is developed by contributors from numerous communities such as Solus, Arch Linux, Manjaro, openSUSE Tumbleweed and Ubuntu Budgie. Budgie's design emphasizes simplicity, minimalism, and elegance. The GTK library used for all releases up to Budgie 10 will be replaced with the Enlightenment Foundation Library (EFL) for the upcoming Budgie 11 release.[1][2]

Budgie (desktop environment) v10.4
Budgie
Screenshot of a typical Budgie desktop with Raven panel.
Developer(s)Buddies of Budgie team
Initial releaseDecember 7, 2013 (2013-12-07)
Stable release
10.6.1 / April 2, 2022 (2022-04-02)
Repositoryhttps://github.com/BuddiesOfBudgie/budgie-desktop
Written inC, Vala
Operating systemUnix-like with X11 (X Window System)
Available inMultilingual
TypeDesktop environment
LicenseGNU LGPLv2.1 for libraries, GNU GPLv2 for binaries
Websitehttps://blog.buddiesofbudgie.org

History

Budgie was initially developed as the default desktop environment for the Evolve OS Linux distribution. After the name change of Evolve OS to Solus,[3] development of Budgie accelerated.

Early versions of Budgie were slow and prone to crashes.[4] Speed and reliability have improved with successive releases.[5]

Budgie v1 was released on February 18, 2014 and v10 on December 27, 2015. The versioning scheme since changed, with the current release being 10.5.

On September 14, 2021, the Solus project announced that the upcoming Budgie 11 release will no longer be written in GTK, due to unsolvable disagreements with the GNOME team. Default GNOME software will also be replaced in the future Budgie Edition of Solus.[6]

On January 1, 2022, the lead developer of Budgie resigned from Solus[7] and established a new organization for Budgie development with other active contributors. Under this new organization, Budgie development shifted from being focused on Solus to being focused on improving the experience across all distributions that ship Budgie. The first release under this new organization was v10.6, released on March 6, 2022.[8]

Additional Components

Budgie Desktop View

Budgie Desktop View is a software component meant to provide desktop icons within Budgie.[9] Budgie Desktop View is implemented in Vala, and uses GTK3 for widgets. The source code is available under the Apache License 2.0.

Budgie Control Center

Budgie Control Center is a fork of GNOME Control Center with Budgie-specific settings and features, and is the standard settings application for Budgie.[10] Budgie Control Center is implemented in C, and uses GTK3 and libhandy for widgets. The source code is available under the GNU GPLv2.

Adoption

Arch Linux

Budgie Desktop is available in Arch Linux's Community repository[11] as well as distributed as budgie-desktop-git in the Arch User Repository.

Debian

Budgie Desktop is available in Debian's main repositories in the Stable branch since Debian 9.

EndeavourOS

Budgie Desktop is available as one of the desktop environments in the EndeavourOS network installer.

GeckoLinux

GeckoLinux, an openSUSE-based distribution, provides GeckoLinux Budgie.[12]

Manjaro

In November 2015, the Manjaro Community announced the availability of Manjaro Budgie 15.11, a community-supported flavor of Manjaro.[13] Manjaro Budgie 16.06.1 was announced on June 14, 2016.[14]

openSUSE

Budgie Desktop is available for openSUSE Leap 15.2 and openSUSE Tumbleweed. [15]

Solus

Solus's primary desktop environment is Budgie.[16][17]

SparkyLinux

Budgie Desktop is available at the current repository of SparkyLinux.

TuxedoOS

TuxedoOS is built[18] with the Budgie Desktop.

Ubuntu Budgie

The first version of the Ubuntu Budgie distribution was 17.04; it is an official Ubuntu flavor. Ubuntu Budgie 17.04 differs from the original Ubuntu 17.04 distribution only in that Budgie is the default desktop environment.[19] As of June 2017, Ubuntu Budgie was among the most popular Ubuntu variants.[20]

Void Linux

Budgie Desktop is available at the current repository of Void Linux (January 2018).[21]

See also

References
  1. "Building an Alternative Ecosystem". joshuastrobl.com.
  2. Darkcrizt (2021-09-24). "Budgie Desktop migrates from GTK to EFL from Enlightenment project". Linux Adictos. Retrieved 2021-12-15.
  3. "Branding". Solus Project. Archived from the original on 2017-09-11. Retrieved 2017-09-11.
  4. Ljubuncic, Igor [Dedoimedo] (February 21, 2015). "Budgie desktop—a new kid on the block". OCS-Mag (Open Content & Software Magazine). Archived from the original on September 17, 2017. Retrieved 2017-09-17.
  5. Ljubuncic, Igor [Dedoimedo] (August 31, 2017). "Budgie desktop—you shall not pass!". OCS-Mag (Open Content & Software Magazine). Archived from the original on September 17, 2017. Retrieved 2017-09-17.
  6. "Building an Alternative Ecosystem". joshuastrobl.com.
  7. "Trouble in Solus Linux land as their Experience Lead quits". gamingonlinux.com.
  8. "Budgie 10.6 Released". Buddies Of Budgie. 2022-03-06. Retrieved 2022-04-03.
  9. Budgie Desktop View, Buddies of Budgie, 2022-03-07, retrieved 2022-04-17
  10. Budgie Control Center, Buddies of Budgie, 2022-02-17, retrieved 2022-04-17
  11. "budgie-desktop 10.3.1-2". Arch Linux. July 13, 2017. Archived from the original on September 11, 2017. Retrieved 2017-09-11.
  12. "GeckoLinux". GitHub. Archived from the original on 2017-09-11. Retrieved 2017-09-11.
  13. Capitani, Stefano (November 2, 2015). "Manjaro Budgie 15.11 released". GitHub. Archived from the original on 2017-09-11. Retrieved 2017-09-11.
  14. Capitani, Stefano (June 2016). "Manjaro Budgie 16.06.1". Manjaro Linux Forum. Retrieved 2017-09-11.
  15. "Portal:Budgie - openSUSE Wiki". en.opensuse.org. Retrieved 2020-10-02.
  16. Watson, J.A. (February 9, 2017). "Hands-on: Solus Linux and the Budgie desktop". Jamie's Mostly Linux Stuff. ZDNet. Archived from the original on 2017-07-03. Retrieved 2017-09-11. {{cite web}}: External link in |department= (help)
  17. "Solus [home page]". Solus Project. Archived from the original on 2017-09-11. Retrieved 2017-09-11.
  18. "Which Linux OS is right for me?".
  19. Lynch, Jim; Sabbagh, M. Hanny (April 19, 2017). "Ubuntu Budgie 17.04 review". Eye on Open. InfoWorld. Archived from the original on 2017-04-29. Retrieved 2017-09-12. {{cite web}}: External link in |department= (help)
  20. Hartley, Matt; Byfield, Bruce (June 21, 2017). "Best Linux distro: Linux experts rate distros". Open Source. Datamation. Archived from the original on 2017-09-03. Retrieved 2017-09-12.
  21. "void-packages/srcpkgs/budgie-desktop at master · voidlinux/void-packages · GitHub". Archived from the original on 2018-05-25. Retrieved 2018-05-25.
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.