A bunch of fixes made to budgie-desktop-view that provides our desktop icons implementation for 26.04 is now in the distro. Do feedback.
Latest updates
budgie-visualspace-applet
budgie-showtime-applet
budgie-dropby-applet
All of these are now installable. All need testing
budgie-applications-menu-applet now has a favorites toggle in BDS ⌠allows you to set up favorite shortcuts in the menu. Let us know your thoughts.
Additional local menu categories should be now displayed. Makes game launchers more sane for finding game launchers.
budgie-desktop - applet popovers should now autoclose when clicking on apps rather than previously remaining open.
Quicknote - copy icon should now autoclose the popup so you donât need an extra click
blueman crash on login should now be a thing in the past.
Latest updates
budgie-visualspace-applet
budgie-showtime-applet
budgie-dropby-applet
All of these are now installable. All need testing
budgie-applications-menu-applet now has a favorites toggle in BDS ⌠allows you to set up favorite shortcuts in the menu. Let us know your thoughts.
Additional local menu categories should be now displayed. Makes game launchers more sane for finding game launchers.
budgie-desktop - applet popovers should now autoclose when clicking on apps rather than previously remaining open.
Quicknote - copy icon should now autoclose the popup so you donât need an extra click
blueman crash on login should now be a thing in the past.
Lots of 3rd party applets now have their 26.04 builds. All need testing
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âbudgie-visualspace-appletâ displays correctly, but cannot be fully tested until keyboard shortcuts are enabled.
Speaking of keyboard shortcuts, native support for âSuper dâ would be welcome. -
âbudgie-showtime-appletâ works well; the new positioning feature is nice.
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The âbudgie-dropby-appletâ icon displays, but not the notification bubble for mounting or unmounting devices, and since Nemoâs side panel cannot be resized, we are stuck.
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The âbudgie-quicknote-appletâ popup seems to close automatically.
Last but not least, thanks for removing âLauchâ from the Icon Task List bubbles. 
Cool - cheers for the feedback - really appreciate it.
âbudgie-visualspace-appletâ displays correctly, but cannot be fully tested until keyboard shortcuts are enabled.
Do you mean how to switch to different workspaces via the keyboard?
Super + Shift + Page Up/Down/End/Home should be enabled out of the box I think - but have a look at the workspace keys in BCC Keyboard - because those shortcuts will be remapped by whatever values are defined there.
Super D
If I believe Google Gemini - labwc doesnât come with a show/hide desktop capability.
It suggests the attached. Think this needs more investigation.
To show or hide the desktop in labwc.txt (2.3 KB)
EDIT: and a discussion here Show desktop in labwc ¡ Issue #2719 ¡ labwc/labwc ¡ GitHub
EDIT2: the existing show desktop applet should work here - does it for you? If so, what we need to-do is write a little bit of code to enable a keyboard shortcut like Super D to call it and do the toggle action of the applet. I suppose the further question here is where to hook âSuper Dâ into BCC - Keyboard - is there already an entry there that defines Show & Hide desktop capabilities?
âbudgie-showtime-appletâ works well; the new positioning feature is nice.
Cheers 
The âbudgie-dropby-appletâ icon displays, but not the notification bubble for mounting or unmounting devices, and since Nemoâs side panel cannot be resized, we are stuck.
Certainly works here - Iâll try with some different devices to see what is what.
The âbudgie-quicknote-appletâ popup seems to close automatically.
How do you mean? What are you doing?
Last but not least, thanks for removing âLauchâ from the Icon Task List bubbles.
Upstream love the french communityâŚ
Yes, the shortcut is supposed to be âCtrl Alt left/right,â but unless Iâm mistaken, it doesnât work.
To display the desktop, I associated âSuper Dâ with wmctrl -k on. But I think it would be normal for UB to offer this shortcut without having to configure it â âShow Desktop Buttonâ exists, but it is mouse-driven.
I just confirmed that there was nothing special to do to make the pop-up disappear, just click on another application you are working on, for example.
The keyboard shortcuts are Super + Shift + Page Up/Page Down as per BCC - Keyboard - Navigation
Super D
Ack. This was a UB special we devised. Have discussed this with upstream. More work needs to be done. Will consider this as a post release - 10.10.1
Panel popovers closing
Correct - the behaviour now is similar to Budgie 10.9 and prior versions. The previous 10.10 behaviour of the popup staying open was found to be a GTK3 limitation. I have worked around this to try to bring back the previous behaviour of closing popovers when the focus changes.
In this case, you will need to edit the keyboard shortcut descriptions in âBudgie Welcomeâ.
In any case, none of them work on my laptop, neither the old ones (Ctrl Alt Left/Right) nor the new ones (Super Shift Up/Down). 
hi all,
done some testing in my turn: both on qemu and on âironâ it seems that about everything is working.
After having heavily customized and tested on qemu, Iâve installed 26.04 on a Thinkpad E580 and it goes, and itâs neither so slow as, reading here, seemed.
A couple of notes:
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icons on Desktop seem to be welded
⌠I mean: is impossible to move them and when you give focus on one, you understand it has got it because of a sort of brilliance in its label. -
panels: as usual main panel but if you want a second panel for launching apps via icon-task-list, some of them doesnât work as in 24.04. For example, Iâve installed prunegps, that is java, and it doesnât show its icon and it cannot be added permanently (via little heart), worst there isnât a menu as with other apps.
In early-early-early iso, Iâve discovered it happened because of a lacking âStartupWMClass=tim-prune-GpsPruneâ in .desktop file: adding it was sufficient to have icon dockable but recently Iâve noticed that the directive above comes after installation but nevertheless nothing changes. -
Crystal-dock: is nice, I must admit, but first, I loved more right sided panel + icon-task-list and second crystal-dock isnât so intuitive to configure (and to export/save its configuration, since you must modify it before it creates a .crystal-dock-2 directory in your home, for example).
Third, version checker says thereâs a newer version so Iâve downloaded from github that one without installing the one that comes from repo. -
Last, but it doesnât depend on Budgie - Iâm writing this just for info, if someone is interested in - on 26.04 GPXSee doesnât exist so you must git clone it and install by hand and finally scrcpy on Ubuntu repos is a lot outdated (2.2.2, if I remember correctly, instead of 3.3.4, that supports latest android versions): in this case too, the simplest way is git cloning the whole stuff.
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Applets: nice, really nice the new version of ShowTime: perfect the window for correctly positioning applet itself. Every other applet Iâve tested (WeatherShow, calendar, fuzzyclock, keyboard layout, âŚ) are correctly working.
Thanks and thanks again,
Sil
First cut of budgie-welcome for 26.04 is now available - so have now listed compatible applets to install and the initial compatible themes.
So need to confirm the list of applets - are they correct? Have we missed any?
Themes will be updated once we have confirmed labwc theming compatibility
please raise this here - GitHub - BuddiesOfBudgie/budgie-desktop: Budgie Desktop is a familiar, modern desktop environment.
This is resolved in v2.16 where we can ship our default config into a system folder location.
Everyone - has anyone managed to crash the entire 10.10 session using Firefox with - possibly autoscrolling - or visiting and viewing videos?
Please let us know - we are trying to track down possible likely components that is in common across 10.10 and 10.9 for the firefox-budgie crashing issues.
cheers
Compared to UB 24.04, and unless I am mistaken, these four applets are missing:
- budgie-brightness-controller-applet
- budgie-carbon-tray-applet
- budgie-pixel-saver-applet
- budgie-sysmonitor-applet
brightness should be there - at least its installable - or should be. Its in the screenshot!
carbon-tray is X11 only - so will never work on wayland. Same story for pixel-saver.
sys-monitor is one of mine - Iâve converted it but the popup appears in the middle of the screen. That needs fixing before adding to backports.
Youâre right, itâs there, itâs one of those who had trouble being installed.
ah - yes - welcome is expecting the applets to be in the backports PPA - at the moment it is in the test PPA. So will have to be installed via the command line. Nice catch!
I had a go at an implementation that was accepted by upstream - this is now patched into budgie-desktop-view. It allows you to move icons around via drag and drop. If you drop onto other icons it swaps the icon position. There is now a right-click option to switch back to auto-arranging. It doesnât allow for arbitary positioning on the desktop - but the desktop is definitely no longer âfrozenâ.
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