For Ubuntu Budgie 22.10 the project team have embarked on a fundamental review of what applications we ship by default. This is primarily needed due to GNOME core apps shipping libadwaita and the inability to have such apps looking the same across the whole distro in-accordance to a users wish. If…

I had a quick look at that. It is broken in 22.04 … easy enough to patch though. Needs a bug report on launchpad. It isnt a simple interface as deja-dup and could be confusing for some. It isnt obvious also how to backup to cloud providers like you can with deja-dup

There was a reason it fell out of favor, but i don’t remember all the details.

[image] fossfreedom: … and TimeShift is not a backup tool for local stuff. You’re right to present it as a system backup as first purpose though it’s also possible to backup $HOME through TimeShift. The choice to backup all $HOME content or only the visible data - excluding the hidden ones - …

This is kind of an easy decision. GNOME Screenshot manages capturing screen-scrapes. However GNOME have replaced gnome-screenshot with their own inbuilt mechanism - so I would expect GNOME to place the app into read-only archive mode i.e. mothball it soonish. Team member Jacob and myself have cre…

I’m confused… All these mentioned applications are already (22.04) breaking my theme. They are all dark, it can’t be changed, changing the theme has no effect. I do not use dark themes at all. I don’t like these dark themed apps, so I’m already looking for alternatives. Using the flatpak version is …

[image] Theming changes in UB 22.04 and later Themes Lets try to answer some of the theme issues being raised around various forums. GNOME 42 brings libadwaita and the enforced dark & light styling using just libadwaita colours - i.e. you cannot use your own GTK Theme. An…

Text editors are very personal things and people are passionate with their choice. We have shipped with gedit since the budgie remix days. Development upstream has virtually ground to a halt. GNOME in 22.10 will be replacing gedit with a new libadwaita based app. Some may claim the old pluma tex…

GNOME Font Viewer is a simple app to display the fonts installed on your system. It however has a habit of crashing - especially for the first few times of usage. font-manager is a new GTK app that is quick and allows you to manage your fonts. It is undergoing a rewrite to GTK4 but with an unknow…

how about Kate ? [image] fossfreedom: So this is not going to be a easy decision… more discussion is needed. have a read of https://kate-editor.org/post/2022/2022-03-31-kate-ate-kwrite/

Kate falls under the KDE application suite … which pulls in the huge KDE libraries which will make our ISO huge. So no.

Default applications review for 22.10 / 23.04 and beyond

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