# General question regarding applets on Ubuntu Budgie

**URL:** <https://discourse.ubuntubudgie.org/t/general-question-regarding-applets-on-ubuntu-budgie/1053>\
**Category:** Budgie Applets\
**Created:** [September 27, 2018, 9:06pm UTC](https://discourse.ubuntubudgie.org/t/general-question-regarding-applets-on-ubuntu-budgie/1053 "2018-09-27T21:06:06Z")\
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**Author:** ![dimitrigraf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/fbc32d/32.png) [@dimitrigraf](https://discourse.ubuntubudgie.org/u/dimitrigraf)\
**Post date:** [September 27, 2018, 9:06pm UTC](https://discourse.ubuntubudgie.org/t/general-question-regarding-applets-on-ubuntu-budgie/1053/1 "2018-09-27T21:06:06Z")

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Which applets that are available on Ubuntu Budgie are developped by the Ubuntu Budgie project and which are created by the Budgie Desktop project?

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**Author:** ![fossfreedom](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex035/user_avatar/discourse.ubuntubudgie.org/fossfreedom/32/1405_2.png) [@fossfreedom](https://discourse.ubuntubudgie.org/u/fossfreedom)\
**Post date:** [September 27, 2018, 9:28pm UTC](https://discourse.ubuntubudgie.org/t/general-question-regarding-applets-on-ubuntu-budgie/1053/2 "2018-09-27T21:28:37Z")

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None of the applets displayed on the budgie applets page have been developed by upstream.

All upstream applets are part of the budgie desktop repo

> **[solus-project/budgie-desktop](https://github.com/solus-project/budgie-desktop)**
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> I Tawt I Taw A Purdy Desktop. Contribute to solus-project/budgie-desktop development by creating an account on GitHub.

All those applets are automatically installed in Ubuntu budgie.

All applets on our budgie applets page have a link to where the maintainer hosts their repo.

All applets created by Ubuntu budgie are located in our github repo

> **[UbuntuBudgie/budgie-extras](https://github.com/ubuntubudgie/budgie-extras)**
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> additional Budgie Desktop enhancements for the user experience - UbuntuBudgie/budgie-extras

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**Author:** ![dimitrigraf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/fbc32d/32.png) [@dimitrigraf](https://discourse.ubuntubudgie.org/u/dimitrigraf)\
**Post date:** [September 27, 2018, 9:32pm UTC](https://discourse.ubuntubudgie.org/t/general-question-regarding-applets-on-ubuntu-budgie/1053/3 "2018-09-27T21:32:14Z")

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So, say, I would like to propose that Applets like Expose should be a desktop setting rather than an Applet without a panel icon, is that Ubuntu Budgie specific or would I have to bring this idea up with the Solus project?

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**Author:** ![fossfreedom](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex035/user_avatar/discourse.ubuntubudgie.org/fossfreedom/32/1405_2.png) [@fossfreedom](https://discourse.ubuntubudgie.org/u/fossfreedom)\
**Post date:** [September 27, 2018, 9:48pm UTC](https://discourse.ubuntubudgie.org/t/general-question-regarding-applets-on-ubuntu-budgie/1053/4 "2018-09-27T21:48:06Z")

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I think expose has been brought up on the upstream tracker previously … it isn’t a v10.x target. Maybe a future version of budgie but no published plans that I am aware of.

As such our current implementation is an applet. We do not change budgie fundamentally from that published … that will just cause confusion all round.

It will need to be reworked in the future if/when budgie moves on to using future technologies. As such when we get there if upstream hasn’t developed expose… and assuming we are in a position to rewrite our current version we could offer it to upstream.

It’s all if and buts at the moment whilst upstream decide on a strategic way forward.