The following instructions will install the test layouts functionality - the GUI will come later. Its best to use a spare VM - and out 19.10 PPA has the necessary fixes for the “Unity 7” layout.
If you are using 19.10 - sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntubudgie-dev/eoan-test && sudo apt upgrade --> use this to grab the Unity 7 fixes
For 18.04/19.04/19.10/20.04 - sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntubudgie-dev/budgie-extras-daily && sudo apt dist-upgrade
Please use 19.10 or 20.04 - suggest use a new user account so that you can use the default clean setup rather than your current customised version.
you can only propose to use applets found either in the ubuntu repositories or our budgie-extras-daily PPA - DO NOT use backport PPA applets.
You can use our new applications-menu if it fits your proposed layout
if you want to use a workspace applet then default the number of workspaces to two … and please use only our new visualspace applet (budgie-visualspace-applet) found in the daily PPA (ubuntubudgie-dev/budgie-extras-daily)
Use Pocillo theme + Pocillo icons + default wallpaper i.e. the default look and feel
You should not have anything on the desktop - remove showtime applet and weather applets etc. Remember the picture will be used in budgie-welcome - so it needs to be clean and good quality.
Come up with a name for your layout that isnt trademarked i.e. we can’t call the layout “mac os” … or “windows” - obviously it needs to be meaningfully associated
Take a full desktop screenshot and paste here in a post (one post per layout) - make sure the menu applet is open when you take the screenshot
Take a screenshot of budgie-desktop-settings - panels - obviously we need to understand how you created the layout i.e. what applets, in what position etc If you use spacers and other tweaks and tucks we need to understand what values you changed.
There will be coding. But for the moment just need the pictures and layouts.
Once we have consensus on the layouts then will have to turn that into formatted files like /usr/share/budgie-desktop/panel.ini. extra tweaks will need coding
Looking at stuff on the web the clock and some of the applet positions and actual applets are not the same e.g. dont think caffeine is there on the desktop?
True, true. I’ll try again
Also that page is in Italian?
honestly I could do way better if I used external themes that resembled macOS, but that’s illegal iirc
The theme is not really the issue here - the capability is really to adjust the layout to ease the users preferred workflow. So theme will be set separately.
Pictures will be better with a clean desktop (probably).
As to the windows layout I’ll leave this to your research to see if its accurate. From memory think the new appmenu isnt a close representation?