2023-08-24 08:30:06
Joshua Strobl today announced the release of Budgie 10.8 as a new maintenance update that brings various improvements, bug fixes, and other changes.
Budgie 10.8 comes with a new applet called the Budgie Trash Applet that was previously available as a third-party applet, but does not come pre-installed by default with the new version of Budgie. In addition to the usual functionality of such an applet, the Budgie Trash Applet also has support for restoring trashed files.
Another interesting change in Budgie 10.8 is support for the StatusNotifier specification in the System Tray Applet, which allows apps to display their icons and menus in the system tray area in a modern way expected of a desktop environment in 2023. .
The Budgie Menu applet has also been updated in this release to reorganize some of the default apps and categories based on user feedback. For example, the Utilities category was removed entirely and the items were moved to the System Tools category.
Budgie 10.8 also updates the battery indicator in the Status applet to give users the ability to control Balanced, Performance, and Power Saving profile modes, on supported systems, improves the Privilege Escalation dialog with a description of the requested action and adds support for Urraca v0.x.
“This version of Magpie is < 1.0 (eg 0.9.x) and is designed to be a temporary fork for Budgie and its current X11-only support,” said Joshua Strobl. "Magpie v0.9.x is strictly compatible with X11 and is a fork of Mutter from GNOME 43.x."
With that in mind, Josh also told me that the Budgie team is working on the wayland stand for future Budgie releases, to be implemented with Magpie 1.0 as its internally built Wayland compositor built on top of wlroots.
Ask the blog announcement for details on the bug fixes and minor improvements coming to Budgie 10.8, a release that will soon be available to users of several popular GNU/Linux distributions, including Arch Linux, Fedora Linux, Ubuntu Budgie, openSUSE Tumbleweed and others.
Image credits: Joshua Strobl
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