FYI , the mailspring snap is currently broken. I continue to receive mail, but can’t write new mail. I know this is not a Budgie desktop issue and will report if possible.
The .deb@ Github has dependency problems on the development release.
The problem has been solved .
Hello! Saturday Feb 22, another partial upgrade this evening, rather than just an update.
@ 5.4.0-14 at this point.
–> Everything seems to have gone smoother this time, no dropped environments.
Apparently it scooped out and replaced quite a bit, but it seemed pretty seemless. Well done 
Everyone - I’m interested in your thoughts about “drawing” - Ubuntu Budgie never has had a painting program simply because most painting programs were either not maintained … or rather too advanced for most users (eg. gimp)
Its a rather elegant looking drawing app - think “MS Paint” … but much better.
Please have a look at v0.4.11 that is now in the focal archive.
sudo apt install drawing@fossfreedom installing has errors.
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if action.get_state_type().dup_string() is 's':in options_manager.py. -
if pts[1] is not ():in selection_manager.py.isandis notare not valid.
It does start. 1st impression: looks very cool. Nice lay-out.
1 “big” issue:
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control+q quits but does not warn that there is unsaved content.
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reported: Control+q does not ask for confirmation · Issue #191 · maoschanz/drawing · GitHub
1 very minor issue:
- it probably needs a little bit more space between title and subtitle.
Got an error on closing.
Traceback (most recent call last):
File “/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/drawing/window.py”, line 299, in on_close
if not self.get_active_image().try_close_tab():
File “/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/drawing/image.py”, line 215, in try_close_tab
self.selection.reset()
File “/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/drawing/selection_manager.py”, line 123, in reset
self.image.update_actions_state()
File “/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/drawing/image.py”, line 289, in update_actions_state
self.active_tool().update_actions_state()
File “/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/drawing/abstract_canvas_tool.py”, line 44, in update_actions_state
self.set_action_sensitivity(‘selection_delete’, False)
File “/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/drawing/abstract_tool.py”, line 49, in set_action_sensitivity
self.get_image().set_action_sensitivity(action_name, state)
AttributeError: ‘NoneType’ object has no attribute ‘set_action_sensitivity’
- once; can’t get it to repeate
- reported: AttributeError: ‘NoneType’ object has no attribute ‘set_action_sensitivity’ · Issue #193 · maoschanz/drawing · GitHub
Thx. For each of these please report on the upstream issue tracker
I am on it
Hmm can’t repeat the last error 
I would report that close issue anyway … looks like a bit of defensive coding should be done.
re: Drawing. Pretty basic stuff, as drawing programs go. It’s a good mark up program, but MyPaint and Krita still have it beat by miles. I like that it has a text option (not in MyPaint) and a limited colour palette (Too much choice for noobs in MyP & Kr)
I’m going to give it a pass until pressure sensitivity for my old Wacom is included. But if you were strictly looking for an MS Paint swap out? … Maybe.
Control Q does need a brief “really?” moment. ALWAYS
Saves/exports as png? Opens jpg, png, and …?
I agree Gimp is too complex for noobs. MyPaint just received an update from 1.2 to 2, updated as a flatpak I believe, but still no text support.
Thanks for the feedback - yeah “ordinary users” is my thought for the target. Sounds like you are most definitely on the artistic end of the spectrum with wacom/gimp and krita knowledge
ha! guilty as charged, but I can’t write code so you’ve got me beat
Yes if you were strictly limited to a mouse, this might be helpful for screenshot markup or drawing word balloons on cat jpgs
None of those cinnamon issues are on my clean install. So its something you have been testing with.
gufw - that is deliberate because the firewall (if installed) does not appear in UB (its hidden on GNOME based desktops for some strange reason) … so we’ve worked around it by providing our own desktop file.
Not sure if you know that already, but you can click on the folder and delete the listed *.desktop files …
Hi should I even have cinnamon control centre in the desktop files?
Ive included below whats been installed along the way should I remove all the cinnamon items?
sudo apt-get remove cinnamon-desktop-environment ?
The only bits of cinnamon UB needs are the translation files … so the cinnamon named packages here https://packages.ubuntu.com/focal/nemo
Previews was not working so I removed it (intending to see if a reinstall would fix) , after a reboot I have lost all Budgie content and desktop is a black screen with mouse cursor only.
Thanks for the report. Yeah, we have been a little overzealous with the dependencies vs recommendations of various packages. This will be fixed in an update today.
Just reinstall the budgie-desktop-environment package again to get back where you were before uninstalling previews.
Now stuck at login with “failed to start session”
Tried reinstalling and got “ubuntu-budgie-desktop is already the latest version”