Joshua Strobl from the Budgie Desktop team today announced the release of Budgie 10.6 which is the latest stable version this open-source, free, modern and lightweight desktop environment suitable for GNU/Linux distributions.
Budgie 10.6 is back 11 months after the original version Budgie 10.5.3This update introduces improvements in application grouping, single-instance application tracking, and better support. KDE applications, as well as a revamped notification system that’s now standalone and is no longer part of the Raven notification center, paving the way for new features like support for notification badges in the icon tasklist.
Budgie 10.6 also adds refinements to the panel and internal theme, including border radiuses for most dialogs, the Raven widgets and the Panel popover contents, unified color scheme of widgets within the panel and better support for GTK themes.
This release, among other things, renames all GNOME Control Center references Budgie Control Center, renames Budgie Desktop View schema in support of its rebranding, fixes various issues regarding Raven, and addresses other bugs that users reported from previous releases.
“Budgie 10.6 is not just a reflection of our organization change for the development of Budgie, it reflects an expansion on Budgie 10.x series with new features and re-architectures, applying the lessons learned from those into our next-generation version of Budgie. Buddies of Budgie views Budgie Desktop as a platform rather than a product,” said Joshua Strobl.
For more information, please visit the Release notes on the project’s GitHub page, from where you can also download the source tarball if you want to compile it yourself or if you’re a Linux OS maintainer who wants to integrate the latest Budgie Desktop into your GNU/Linux distribution. Anyone else should wait for Budgie 10.6 to be released in stable software repositories before updating.
Image credits: Budgie Team (edited Marius Nestor).
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