ricardomv / budgie-desktop

Evolve OS's desktop

Budgie Desktop

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
• Optimize menu (migrate from GtkListBox)
• Add some form of notification system
• Add network control (ConnMan & Network Manager)
• Add sound control (PulseAudio) and support media keys (partly done) ✓
• Allow adding launchers directly to panel
• Allow pinning menu launchers to panel (see above point)
• Rewrite in Vala! (mostly done, panel is complete)
• Enable customisation of panel layout, etc.

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. A sole exception is the wm/plugin.c file, which is a slight modification of the default Mutter plugin.

The entire project will be rewritten in Vala at some point, with over 58% of it already complete at the time of writing this document.

budgie-wm:

libmutter based window manager. Uses a modified default plugin to use better default animations, support wallpaper, etc.

budgie-panel:

GTK3 "panel" application. Supports task switching, has a menu, a simple "clock", and a battery indicator. Customisable applet support coming soon.

budgie-session:

Tiny C "session" program, simply starts the aforementioned programs and tries not to die. Has simple facility to stop the session via the command:

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

Dependencies:

• libpulse
• libpulse-mainloop-glib
• GTK3 (>= 3.10.1)
• upower-glib (>= 0.9.20)
• libgnome-menu (>= 3.10.1)
• libwnck (>= 3.4.7)
• libmutter (>= 3.10.1)
• GLib (>= 2.38.0)
• gee-0.8 (not gee-1.0!)
• libpeas-1.0
• valac

Ubuntu users: It is highly likely your theme or Ubuntu setup can affect the usability of budgie-panel.

Do not use the Ubuntu GTK3 modifications or plugins, because they break Budgie. I will not support them. (overlay scrollbars and such)

Author

• Ikey Doherty [e-mail]