Budgie Desktop v10.4 released for Debian and Ubuntu

Nikola

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Budgie desktop v10.4 release small

Its my pleasure to announce the release of the latest Budgie Desktop for both Debian and Ubuntu users.

The release is for:

  1. Debian unstable
  2. Debian Buster (will be sync’d next week)
  3. Ubuntu 17.10
  4. Ubuntu Budgie 17.10
  5. Ubuntu 17.04
  6. Ubuntu Budgie 17.04
  7. Ubuntu 16.04.3
  8. budgie-remix 16.04.3

At the same time, I have refreshed all builds made available by the fantastic indie budgie developers

  • budgie brightness control applet
  • budgie calendar applet
  • budgie haste applet
  • budgie indicator applet
  • budgie system monitor applet
  • budgie pixel saver applet (17.04/17.10)
  • budgie weather applet (17.04/17.10)
  • budgie global menu (17.04/17.10)

Budgie Welcome has been updated with all the latest translations; all the above applets can be installed from Budgie Welcome.

… and you want more?! EvopPop and EvoPop Azure themes are also now available to be installed – just open up Budgie Welcome – default settings

Upstream, the Budgie Desktop organisation  has published a really great guide of all whats new – so check it out now!

Notes:

Budgie Pixel Saver applet no longer works on Ubuntu 16.04. If you want to have a look and fix it up then get in touch.

Budgie Desktop v10.4 introduces theming changes – specifically themes for the new popovers you see when clicking on applets. All 3rd party budgie themes will need updates to make the popovers work correctly. So again – please contact us and help out fixing these themes – especially for those Ubuntu 16.04 themes.

All of you need to dig in please – upstream themers have moved on to newer GTK versions, so you all need to help and fix for your fellow 16.04 users.

How to install:

For Debian unstable and Debian Buster:

sudo apt install budgie-desktop

For budgie-remix 16.04 users, just update & reboot as normal.

For 16.04 Ubuntu users:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:budgie-remix/ppa
sudo apt update
sudo apt install budgie-desktop

For 17.04 Ubuntu users:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntubudgie/backports
sudo apt update
sudo apt install budgie-desktop

For 17.04 Ubuntu Budgie users:

  • Open budgie-welcome – Recommendations. Enable “Backports”. Then, update and reboot as normal

For 17.10 Ubuntu users:

sudo apt install budgie-desktop

For 17.10 Ubuntu Budgie users … just update and reboot!

David (project lead)