Budgie 10.9.0 Released by Buddies of Budgie
Buddies of Budgie, the organization responsible for overseeing the development of the project following its separation from the Solus distribution, has published the latest version of Budgie, version 10.9.0. Budgie is a user environment formed by separate components, including the desktop environment Budgie Desktop, the set of pictograms Budgie Desktop View, the Interface for Setting the System Budgie Control Center (a fork of Gnome Control Center), and the screensaver script Budgie Screensaver (a fork of Gnome-screensaver). The project code is distributed under the GPLV2 license [source].
To familiarize yourself with Budgie, you can use distributions such as Ubuntu Budgie, Fedora Budgie, Solus, Gekkolinux, and Endeavouros [source] [source] [source] [source] [source].
Main Changes
- Budgie now utilizes direct contact with Bluez and Upower through the D-Bus bus, instead of using the Gnome-Bluetooth library. This improvement allows for the management of Bluetooth devices, including connecting and disconnecting paired devices. Additionally, indicators for the battery charge of external devices have been added,