There is a wide variety of desktop environments in Linux, of which each one has its own characteristics that make it unique, although among the best known we can find Gnome, KDE, Cinnamon and others, there is an environment that has begun to grow and have many followers given its characteristics Today I will talk about Budgie.
Budgie is the default desktop of the Solus operating system, written from scratch, which gives it a plus since it can be installed together with other environments and does not generate conflicts. This desktop environment has a more modern design, Budgie can simulate the appearance of the GNOME 3 desktop.
The Budgie Desktop Development Team is pleased to announce the new version of your desktop environment found in its version 10.4 with which they implement new improvements in applets, panels and correct a variety of errors.
Budgie Desktop 10.4 enhancements
They have redesigned the App menu, add more smooth animation and now you have Budgie Configuration where we can change many settings for Budgie Desktop.
Between the new features found in the environment desktop are:
Budgie Settings, is a new application that makes adding, removing, and managing panels, applets, and settings for Budgie's desktop theme, style, and behavior much easier. You can open Budgie settings at any time by clicking the left-most icon at the bottom of the Raven sidebar.
The desktop application menu is now faster when filtering applications and more customizable.
Applets and panels
Un new Night Light applet allows you to control the temperature of the screen.
El Location Indicator applet also got some improvements in this version, with a new option to always expand the places section when the applet is displayed. The head of the places section it is now a clickable button, making the section easier to move. The places icon has also been changed to a more suitable folder icon, better representing "places" instead of "disks" as previously introduced.
Position the panels vertically and activate panel transparency.
There is also a new mode «Dock mode»Which will reduce the width of the panel to the size of the content, perfect for creating a dock for launching and managing applications.
The Calendar widget in Raven will remove the date selection if the month or year changes.
The Icon Task List applet no longer has a list of "derper" applications for which we have replaced the icon. If a .desktop file is found, use the icon it refers to.
The user indicator has now been updated and refined iconography thanks to Sam Hewitt.
Animation improvements
New animations accompany common window actions like maximize, minimize, and snap - all of which work wonderfully with the new "dynamic transparency" setting.
How to install Budgie on Ubuntu 17.04?
If you want to test this desktop environment on your system, it will be necessary to add the official repositories and perform the desktop installation with the following commands:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntubudgie/backports sudo apt update && sudo apt install budgie-desktop sudo apt install budgie-screenshot-applet budgie-haste-applet budgie-weather-applet budgie-indicator-applet
How to install Budgie on Ubuntu 16.04?
Now if you are a Ubuntu 16.04 user, you will need to add this repository since this is the indicated for the version of your system.
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:budgie-remix/ppa sudo apt update && sudo apt install budgie-desktop
How to uninstall Budgie Desktop from Ubuntu?
If for some reason you want to remove the desktop environment from your system, I leave you the commands to perform this action, before doing this the only warning I can give you is that, when you are sure to completely remove this desktop environment, now Count on someone else, since if it is the only one you have in the system and you delete it, you will lose the graphical environment and you will have to install some other desktop environment, with that said I leave you the removal commands:
sudo apt-get remove budgie-desktop
Greetings.
I would like to know if there is any way to install budgie-desktop 10.5 on Ubuntu and its derivatives. I currently have version 10.4.