Budgie (desktop environment)

Budgie is an independent, free and open-source desktop environment for Linux and other Unix-like operating systems. Budgie is developed by the Buddies of Budgie organization, which is composed of a team of contributors from Linux distributions such as Fedora, Solus, Debian, and Arch Linux. Its design emphasizes simplicity, minimalism, and elegance.

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This article is about the desktop environment. For other uses, see Budgie (disambiguation).
Budgie
Original author(s)Ikey Doherty, Solus Project
Developer(s)Buddies of Budgie
Initial releaseFebruary 17, 2014 (2014-02-17)
Stable release
10.7[1]  / 29 January 2023 (29 January 2023)
Repositoryhttps://github.com/BuddiesOfBudgie/budgie-desktop
Written inC, Vala
Operating systemUnix-like
PlatformX11
Available in71 languages
TypeDesktop environment
LicenseGNU LGPLv2.1 for libraries, GNU GPLv2 for binaries
Websitehttps://blog.buddiesofbudgie.org

History

Budgie was created by Ikey Doherty as the default desktop environment for his new Linux distribution, EvolveOS, eventually renamed to Solus. The first version of Budgie was released on February 17, 2014 (2014-02-17). Early versions were slow and prone to crashes, though speed and reliability would improve with successive releases.

On October 27, 2018 (2018-10-27), it was announced that Ikey had ceased communication with the rest of the Solus team for unknown reasons. Joshua Strobl, one of the Solus core team members, would take up the responsibility of continuing Budgie's development after Ikey's departure.[2]

On September 14, 2021 (2021-09-14), Joshua announced that the long-awaited Budgie 11 release would no longer be using GTK due to disagreements with the direction that the toolkit had been taking. It was also announced that the GNOME software suite that had been shipped in the Budgie edition of Solus would be replaced in future versions.[3]

On January 1, 2022 (2022-01-01), Joshua resigned from Solus[4] and established Buddies of Budgie, 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 (2022-03-06).[5]

Additional components

Budgie Desktop View

Budgie Desktop View is a software component meant to provide desktop icons within Budgie.[6] Budgie Desktop View is implemented in Vala, and uses GTK 3 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.[7] Budgie Control Center is implemented in C, and uses GTK 3 and libhandy for widgets. The source code is available under the GNU GPLv2.

Budgie Screensaver

Budgie Screensaver is a fork of GNOME Screensaver with additional fixes and minor updates, and serves to provide an authentication prompt when the system is locked.[8] Budgie Screensaver is implemented in C, and uses GTK 3 for widgets. The source code is available under the GNU GPLv2.

Budgie Backgrounds

Budgie Backgrounds is Budgie's default set of background images for use with Linux distributions that do not provide their own, and is entirely composed of public domain images.[9] The source code and images are available under the Creative Commons Zero v1.0 license.

Releases
Version Date Notes
December 14, 2013 (2013-12-14) Development announced.[10]
1 February 17, 2014 (2014-02-17) First testing release.[11]
2 March 12, 2014 (2014-03-12) Visual style improvements, additional applets and dialogs.[12]
3 June 22, 2014 (2014-06-22) Code cleanup and performance improvements.[13]
4 July 12, 2014 (2014-07-12) Introduction of Vala code; animation, menu, popover, and dialog improvements.[14]
5.1 July 19, 2014 (2014-07-19) Panel rewritten in Vala, and the addition of a new plugin API for panel applets.[15]
6 August 20, 2014 (2014-08-20) New panel editor for custom layouts.[16]
7 September 1, 2014 (2014-09-01) Notifications support and a new XEmbed tray applet.[17]
8 November 16, 2014 (2014-11-16) Simplified main menu, cleaner animations, and significant theming improvements.[18]
8.1 February 5, 2015 (2015-02-05) Rewrite of the window manager and updated interface components.[19]
8.2 May 8, 2015 (2015-05-08) Stability and performance improvements.[20]
8.3 October 24, 2015 (2015-10-24) Primarily general bug fixes.[21]
10 December 26, 2015 (2015-12-26) Rewrite from the ground up. Introduced multi-monitor support, the Raven sidebar, and multiple panels.[22]
10.1 December 26, 2015 (2015-12-26) No release notes.[23]
10.2 December 30, 2015 (2015-12-30) Vendored nm-applet launcher, new translations, and Raven improvements.[24]
10.3 April 16, 2017 (2017-04-16) New alt-tab implementation, MPRIS artwork support, and applet improvements.[25]
10.4 August 14, 2017 (2017-08-14) New applets, plus panel, animation, and personalization improvements.[26]
10.5 March 17, 2019 (2019-03-17) New applets, improvements to existing applets, improvements to Raven widgets and notification management.[27]
10.6 March 6, 2022 (2022-03-06) First release under the Buddies of Budgie organization. Significant improvements to application tracking, internal theme polish, a rewritten notification system, and updates to the default layout.[28]
10.7 January 29, 2023 (2023-01-29) Major re-architectures, new APIs for extensibility, and polish to the user experience.[29]

Adoption
Distribution Since version Since date Notes
Arch Linux Rolling March 4, 2016 (2016-03-04) Profile available in archinstall
Debian 9 "stretch"[30] June 17, 2017 (2017-06-17)[30]
EndeavourOS 2019.12.22[31] December 22, 2019 (2019-12-22)[31] Uses Arch Linux repositories
Fedora Linux 37[32] November 15, 2022 (2022-11-15)[32]
GeckoLinux[33] Next 152.200830.0,

Rolling 999.200830.0[34]

 September 1, 2020 (2020-09-01)[34] Uses openSUSE repositories
Manjaro[35] Rolling November 2015 (2015-11) Budgie Edition is community-led
OpenMandriva Lx 4.0[36] June 16, 2019 (2019-06-16)
openSUSE[37] Leap 15.0 May 25, 2018 (2018-05-25)
Solus[38] EvolveOS Alpha 1[39] July 6, 2014 (2014-07-06)
SparkyLinux 3.6-dev1 February 2, 2015 (2015-02-02)
Ubuntu[40] 16.04 LTS April 25, 2016 (2016-04-25) As Ubuntu Budgie, originally budgie-remix
Void Linux[41] Rolling October 9, 2016 (2016-10-09)[42]
Ultramarine Linux 35 December 16, 2021 (2021-12-16) Budgie as flagship version.

Reception

Budgie has been generally well received, with reviews noting its appealing visual design and intuitive layout. Bertel King wrote in 2018 that "Budgie feels like someone took the great things about GNOME, took out all the not so great things, set some great default options, and sent that out into the world." However, King also considered this a negative, writing that Budgie "can feel more like a customized version of GNOME than a separate entity."[43] John Perkins described Budgie as "a beautiful desktop that aims to provide sane defaults and a beautiful interface," while lamenting its limited availability on distributions other than Solus.[44]

See also

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