# News All of the news in regards to changes will be posted here. Difference from Changelog is that this will contain compressed news and somewhat expanded explenations when needed. Will also list news outside of direct changes from changed packages/versions. (What was previously done with 'NOTE:..' in the README). ## 2025/9/14 With hope we have arrived at our new destination! New Budgie Desktop minor release New version of budgie-desktop 10.9.3 has been released. With that a slew of issues I had in regards to deps have also been fixed. So I am happy. Along with the new versions, all packages have been moved to a new category, either budgie-base or budgie-extra, no more gnome-extra. New versions: - budgie-desktop-10.9.3 - budgie-meta-10.9.3 - budgie-control-center-1.4.1 Repository changes: - All core packages of budgie have been moved from gnome-extra to budgie-base - All applets have been moved from gnome-extra to budgie-extra - The category gnome-extra has been deleted. Budgie 10.10 is still being worked on. I have no idea when it will come but I do not expect anything before the next year. It wouldn't surprise me if takes upwards of a year before it arrives. Hence this minor release they made instead. **Important:** For some reason (I think preparation for 10.10) the actual gnome-settings-daemon requirement of budgie-control-center is actually 49.beta or higher. In the source i could find no reason for this specific requirement. They did state it was due to chaintools. So something on a higher level is going on, but should for us mere mortals not be relevant. Seeing as this is a) a beta version and b) not available in gentoo at all I have modified it to require and look if version 47.2 or higher is installed. For me this worked. **Should you get issues do let me know, I will then pull down the these versions till 49 is in the gentoo repository!** As can be expected these ebuilds are added as unstable keywords. I will leave this up for unstable for a longer period of time of 2 months at least. ## 2025/7/18 Clickydy Click Music! Compile fix and media-player-applet got a version bump. budgie-media-player-applet: This applet got a version bump. Biggest features are that now you can control mouse click actions on what to do with the applet. (open popup, play/pause, forward and backwards respectively). As well wayland compatible now for future budgie-desktop release. budgie-desktop: So late august vala 0.56.18 was made stable, this version actually contained an API change that broke compilation. So yeah lovely. This caused it unable to be compiled. Patch added with the fix to allow compilation again. Regarding budgie desktop 10.10 release, still no news. I am keeping an eye on it but no idea when it will be released. ## 2025/6/10 Indicators arrived! 2 New applets are added. Unless I see more are used elsewhere this should it for a long while. The added applets are: - budgie-indicator-applet - budgie-indicator-sysmonitor-applet Budgie-indicator-applet is used to have applications place an icon with any indicator for quick actions (similar in a way to a system tray) and the budgie-indicator-sysmonitor-applet is used to monitor system information such a temperatures/load etc. *Note: While budgie-indicator-applet is appearing for me I was unable to actually see any app in there. Basically missing the apps and accounts for proper testing. If you see it not working properly please do let me know.* ## 2025/6/2 New applets added, semi preparation for 10.10 eventual release 8 New applets were added to the repository. For now all them are made to work with mainly with Budgie-Desktop 10.9.2. They are not added to the meta ebuild to preserve those changes for when 10.10 releases and i split everything up in 2 meta ebuilds. Some of them have patches to work with both 10.10 and 10.9.2 but having their wayland useflags disabled. This will be changed later when 10.10 releases (I have no idea when this will happen). The added applets are: - budgie-browser-profile-launcher - budgie-cpufreq-applet - budgie-cputemp-applet - budgie-lightpad-applet (which launches lightpad) - budgie-media-player-applet - budgie-performance-gauge-applet - budgie-user-indicator-redux-applet - budgie-hostname-applet Budgie-Desktop 10.10 status is still unknown. When that releases some small applets may be removed later. See Issues tab for more info. ## >> older news See Changelog, news is not added retro active here.