So need to confirm the list of applets - are they correct? Have we missed any?
Hi,
I’ve installed budgie-showtime-applet (dpkg -l | grep budgie-showtime-applet says 2.0.0-0ubuntu1, transitional package) but it doesn’t appear in installable applets list; logging out and in is useless. OK Clock, FuzzyClock, keyboard-Layout, WeatherShow, Brightness-controller that I usually install on my system.
About desktop icons, I’ve noticed some changes like contextual menu, but they still seems to be nailed.
About second panel and java apps I can confirm you: they aren’t dockables on panel; besides gpsprune, I’ve tried with Jedit too, without success. I’ll send to BuddiesOfBudgie asap.
Please, notice that (from my own PoV) none of these is fatal; about desktop icons, more, maybe people will learn not to store their data on desktop!
A while back when Raven plugins were introduced in Budgie Desktop 10.7, we created a Vala-based example of a Raven plugin:
It has been updated so it can correctly build under Ubuntu Budgie 26.04 / Budgie Desktop 10.10.
While this will not appeal to most users, should anyone with an idea and a bit of know-how wish to try their hand at creating their own project, it is a good starting point. It is a functional widget, though it serves no purpose other than as a demo. We would love to see new widgets from any creative developers out there, and I don’t mind helping out with any questions anyone has on getting started.
Need help. I have a qt app I’m trying to run that typically runs just fine in KDE wayland. I keep getting the error more specific to xcb… I’ve tried installing qt, however that hasn’t done it.
qt.qpa.plugin: Could not find the Qt platform plugin “wayland” in “ ”
This application failed to start because no Qt platform plugin could be initialized. Reinstalling the application may fix this problem.
That worked, but it seems like I need to use the precursor env QT_QPA_PLATFORM=xcb (./myapp) every time. Is there a more permanent fix?
HAHA installed QT that way too; hopefully it, the app, finds it after a restart (it doesn’t). The app works and is at least syncing, though. Thank you.
All kidding aside, after installing Qt5 and Qt6 and still nothing, I ran sudo apt install kubuntu-desktop alongside Budgie, and it works. Josh is running mostly KDE in his .rpm version that he updates elsewhere, so I said, why not install KDE alongside Budgie? Not the right answer, but a workaround nevertheless.
From upstream issues - all nvidia users. Be aware that reaching for nvidia-settings isn’t appropriate moving into the wayland world. To set monitor positions etc, use wdisplays which is available from the menu.
Back testing again! I’m seeing some flicker and freezing of just about all applications. I’m testing in boxes with plenty of memory and space along with the Ubuntu flagship gnome release. The longer I use Budgie the better it seems to run. I couldn’t get past TTY last week. If I can identify a central cause I’ll report back.
ok - with todays ISO we basically have our release for 26.04.
Obviously bug fixes galore.
The key things to note for those how have been installed prior to last week:
Crystal-dock out of the box configured
Change from lightdm/slick-greeter to SDDM/our own greeter
Top-Bar reworked
Menu now has favourites
Showtime is now a raven widget
From a bug fix to-do POV:
working on a fix for setting the keyboard on first install - need to-do a fresh install to confirm what I believe is happening
complete the upstreaming crystal-dock support in budgie - hide the 1px visible line at the bottom of the screen when an app is full-screen
add to welcome layout support specifically for resolute - budgie-extras-daemon has been re-enabled in budgie-extras over the weekend to include stopping/starting crystal-dock
Documenting how people need to identify their primary monitor i.e. the one that panels appear on. A stretch goal will be to actually fix this in budgie-desktop but this will mean also a fix in weathershow and showtime to appear depending upon how budgie-desktop-services says the primary monitor is rather than Gtk/GDK saying what it thinks.
Translation support for the new greeter
anything else that we agree is “serious” or “critical” found between now and beta. “nice to have” will be on a “how easy is it to implement” basis.
The greeter has some default images we have created - 256x256 png format.
We would love folk to find/create their own “avatars” to replace these. Lets see your creations!
I put in some special handling in the menu (ours and upstreams menu implementation) for any GUI that uses Exec=pkexec … in their .desktop file. pkexec under wayland needs some special handling with environment variables to work. If synaptic and gufw doesn’t use pkexec in their Exec= file then end-users will need to start getting creative to launch these under wayland/xwayland.
command didn’t work for synaptic. The aplication “Firewall” opens fine as a work-around but requires more knowledge to use. GUFW is a recommended app in budgie welcome.
