2024 will be a really exciting year for Budgie Desktop
Recently the launch of la new version of Budgie 10.9, in which our companion pablinux He shared with us the highlights of this first 2024 release of the environment.
Just a few days before the release of Budgie 10.9 the organization Buddies Of Budgie shared a detailed report about progress in desktop environment development work, highlighting the achievements in older versions, such as 10.8, 10.8.1, 10.7, 10.7.1, and 10.7.2. In addition to reviewing past milestones, the report It also offers a vision of future plans for this year 2024.
What was achieved in 2023 at Budgie
In its publication it is mentioned that during 2023 Budgie experienced a series of significant advances and a wide variety of improvements in the user experience to important architectural changes are being prepared for 2024.
During 2023, Budgie Desktop focused on its organizational value of being user-centric. This manifested itself in the delivery of important features and improvements through releases such as Budgie 10.7 and 10.8. These releases introduced new features and improvements to the stability and consistency of the user experience.
Se Elements such as the Budgie Menu stand out, which received significant improvements such as dual GPU support and a custom user menu for faster access to important directories. Likewise, the introduction of a new integrated screenshot app and improvements to the Budgie Control Center reflect the team's commitment to usability and user convenience.
Furthermore, Key architectural improvements implemented, such as a new application indexer and support for the Status Notifier standard, which improved system integration and visual consistency.
What is expected for 2024
For the part of the route that is planned for this year 2024, it is mentioned that the implementation of the support for the Wayland protocol and in the development of the Budgie 11 branch, which will be exclusively designed to work with Wayland.
Our secondary epic is the development of Budgie 11, focusing on creating key components such as the daemon, home panel and applet functionality, and a new Budgie Control Center. This work will be spread throughout the year and most of the focus before putting Budgie 10 into maintenance mode…
Porting work may be done on components in the Budgie Desktop microcosm, such as Budgie Desktop View, or even smaller components used in Budgie 10, depending on how cohesive an experience we can achieve.
In the first quarter of 2024, the focus will be on the delivery of Budgie 10.9 (which has already been released) followed by the expansion of work definitions related to Budgie 10. In the second quarter, remaining work expected to be completed on Budgie Control Center and Budgie Desktop to make it usable under Magpie v1.
Development of the Magpie composite manager continues to progress, being a temporary version of GNOME's Mutter composite manager, created specifically to facilitate the transition to the Wayland protocol. Although Budgie is currently still using
Some of the commitments already reached include migrating key applets, such as Show Desktop, Tab Switcher, Workspaces, and IconTasklist, to work with Wayland, paving the way for the full transition to this protocol.
For the third and fourth quarters, the goal is to deliver a version of the Budgie 10 series that is exclusively Wayland. This will mark the start of a maintenance phase for Budgie 10, allowing the team to dedicate more time to the development of Budgie 11.
On the part of the important features, the following are mentioned:
- Significant advancements to Budgie Desktop throughout 2023, including key releases such as Budgie 10.7 and 10.8.
- Commitment to user experience through improvements to the Budgie Menu, screenshot app, and Control Center.
- Transition to Budgie 10 at Wayland and anticipated development of Budgie 11 in 2024.
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