Happy New Year of the Budgie! 
Oh well, around here every year is the year of the Budgie!
The Ubuntu Budgie team meets once a month to discuss recent updates and what’s coming next for Ubuntu Budgie. Meeting notes from Ubuntu Budgie team meeting of 19 January 2025, 16:30 UTC.
Distro Updates
- Upstream shared an interesting blog post, worth of reading: State of the Budgie: 2024 In Review and Goals for 2025 | Buddies of Budgie
- Notifications: @samlane and @fossfreedom checking status.
- Screenshots: wayland updates and changes are causing issues, we need to update and fix.
- Themes: jumpstart with some documentation and testing by @GrindamN and @ilvipero . @ulfnic volunteered to help have a look.
- Workspace applet: @fossfreedom looking at upstream to see how to port it.
- Bluetooth: Budgie Control Center BT was dropped due to Debian decision to drop dependency libraries. We are going to use Blueman.
- Shall we consider adding a “Playground” area in the Budgie Welcome for experimental PPAs and upcoming features only for the brave ?
- Broken applets after budgie wayland? @fossfreedom tells us we have a list of each applet and its status is shared on the github applet repo: GitHub · Where software is built
RaspberryPI
- @samlane is looking at configuration app. Changes are needed for wayland. VNC options are not going to work on wayland, but WayVNC would work. By default it is restricted to the localhost, so changes might be needed to open it up to options to configure.
- FreeRDP is a wayland compatible RDP system
Ubuntu Budgie Welcome
- @GrindamN is working on the next version’s look and feel.
- @ilvipero asked if someone would have time to install the Xone Xbox X|S controller drivers in Budgie Welcome. It should only require a few lines of bash.
- @GrindamN also mentions about AI crowd with GPUs.
- @fossfreedom asked if we are ready to publish the email ballot. Sam and Mauro already tested, so we agreed to publish once @GrindamN can also have a quick look.
Infra
- @GrindamN needs to speak with Dustin to implement static website
- @samlane to publish infra blog post and @ilvipero to sing on socials
- Discourse - Ubuntu Budgie could move to the Ubuntu Discourse
Thanks all that managed to attend the monthly team meeting.
Next meeting 16th Feb 2025 4:30 PM UTC