Simple, yet elegant desktop

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What's that? Not a fork. Exactly.

Note: Budgie Desktop integrates with the GNOME stack, and as such requires certain components to operate correctly.

TODO:

• Start adding support for translations (v9)
• Redo notifications (v9)
• Add appindicator to eventually replace new tray (v9) (see below)
• Finish WM migration to 3.14
• Redo menu and panel using GtkFlowBox and such wonders. (poss v10)
• Introduce menu pagination (v9)
• Panel colours (v9)
• Wayland support, complete it, and validate on Intel NUC (v9)
• Drop many deps. (v9)

The tray will still remain an option, but it won't be the default implementation in many cases. This is mainly due to the extremely buggy nature of xembed. Remember our policy (unless we really don't have a choice, like moving to a non-buggy Mutter, or dropping Ubuntu due to very very old components) - is to retain choice, not remove it.

Implementation note:

All elements are written entirely from scratch, using GTK and either Vala or C. A rewrite took place to lower the barrier of entry for new contributors and to ease maintainence. (Exception: Parts of the default mutter plugin currently reside in wm/legacy.*)

budgie-wm:

libmutter based window manager.

budgie-panel:

Plugin based panel. Users/developers can provide their own custom applets, which are fully integrated. They can be moved, added, removed again, and even broken!

budgie-session:

Session management binary, keeps stuff running. Supports some really uninteresting things like GSettings start conditions and desktop environment based OnlyStartIn entries.

budgie-session --logout

budgie-run-dialog:

A utility that enables you to quickly launch applications by their executable path without having to use the terminal or menu. Normally a program starts because of this.

Dependencies:

• intltool
• libpulse
• libpulse-mainloop-glib
• GTK3 (>= 3.14.0)
• upower-glib (>= 0.9.20)
• libgnome-menu (>= 3.10.1)
• libwnck (>= 3.4.7)
• libmutter (>= 3.14.0)
• GLib (>= 2.40.0)
• gee-0.8 (not gee-1.0!)
• libpeas-1.0
• valac

• Ikey Doherty ikey.doherty@gmail.com