IMHO always upload to Transifex whenever possible — and always try to make it possible.
The current daily iso together with a
snap refresh
Will present a complete welcome for 26.04. Applets listed should now all be installable, Makeovers and Layouts should be functional.
Gufw in recommendations should have a hint on how to launch it.
Latest translations have been incorporated. Many languages though are missing some translation strings so please do help out via transifex.
All needs careful testing
This has nothing to do with it, but I’ve just noticed it.
The keyboard test in the Ubuntu settings does not work (or no longer works);
actually, the keyboard did switch, but the display remains in QWERTY mode unless you delete the characters you’ve entered to run a second test.
I should also mention that Ubuntu had a good idea to include accessibility settings right from the start.
Wouldn’t that be possible on Ubuntu Budgie as well?
And displaying the login box directly would prevent an untranslatable “Press any key” message from appearing on the screen.
I’m not familiar with that - can you please show a screenshot ?
We would need someone dedicated to work alongside buddiesofbudgie to enhance our accessibility options. Sadly the current team has very limited knowledge in this area
Thx. Fixed this. Its waiting for acceptance by Ubuntu devs - both budgie-sddm-theme and budgie-desktop needed tweaks to resolve.
Sorry, I don’t mean to sound condescending, but I’ve always thought that all you need to do is try a language other than English — which you’re probably quite familiar with, of course — to see what the rest of the world sees.
I foolishly assumed that the application was basically the same for both Ubuntu and UB.
Thanks anyway for everything you do.
Its one of the reasons … even a key reason … why buddies would like more non English speaker devs to join in and help.
Foolishlyassumed that the application was basically the same for both Ubuntu and UB.
Every compositor handles accessibility differently. From budgie 10.10 onwards, budgie will be able to run on multiple compositors, so this area will need to be actively worked. Fascinating area i am sure.
Since the VisualSpace applet no longer appears in Budgie Welcome, I assumed it was because it wasn’t compatible with Wayland and had been replaced by Workspace Switcher — which I thought was a real pity from an aesthetic standpoint.
But upon carefully reading the release notes for UB 26.04, I noticed that VisualSpace was listed among the compatible applets, so I quickly installed it:
sudo apt update && sudo apt install budgie-visualspace-applet
Installing additional applets can sometimes be a bit glitchy; you really need to get into the habit of logging out and logging back in.
PS Thanks for the “Super D” shortcut! 
should now be there
snap refresh
Yep - we’ve gone as far as we can with current gtk3 technologies. You’ll note we’ve explicitly highlighted extensions in budgie 11 to make them as seamless as possible. Lets see how that goal is met
You are most welcome. I enjoyed reimplementing that upstream.
A modest proposal
Until Nemo becomes a Wayland-compatible application and maybe manage once again the desktop directly, why not provide, out of the box, an icon in Crystal Dock that allows you to view the desktop in Nemo and thus create files or folders with a right-click?
A nemo-desktop.desktop launcher in ‘/usr/share/applications’ like this one:
[Desktop Entry]
Version=1.1
Type=Application
Name=Nemo desktop
Comment=Display the desktop in Nemo
Icon=user-desktop
Exec=nemo Desktop
Actions=
Categories=Filesystem;GNOME;System;System-Tools;
An entry at the end of the list in the “launchers” section of ~/.config/crystal-dock/Budgie/panel_1.conf:
launchers="nemo;org.buddiesofbudgie.controlcenter;ubuntu-budgie-welcome_budgie-welcome;nemo-desktop"
… and that’s it:
Nicely done. Sadly we are well past user interface freeze and final freeze is tomorrow. But we can squeeze this into the release notes. Probably under the community highlights blog. cheers.
I figured out (among other things) how to translate (or hide) this message.
I think I’ll have a list of small tweaks to share once Ubuntu 26.04 is released.
New third-party applet added to budgie-welcome and uploaded to our backports PPA
introducing budgie-webcam-applet
Will be added to the release note soon.
I can confirm that the numeric keypad lock indicator in the Lock Keys Indicator applet only lights up when a modifier key (Alt, Ctrl, Shift) is pressed.
If you can raise this here then hopefully someone can help