Budgie

[drik]

A "new" desktop.
https://evolve-os.com/budgie/

Not test yet

Here a french test with Ubuntu and Manjaro.
lightness and and speed

;)

[way12go]

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:sukso96100/budgie-desktop

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get install budgie-desktop

edited sources.list to "utopic main"

got this error

apt-get install budgie-desktop
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
budgie-desktop : Depends: libupower-glib1 but it is not installable
                  Depends: libmutter0d but it is not installable
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.

[drik]

Not try with Sparky, that's Ubuntu example !
I don't see the way to try with Debian...

In work

[pavroo]

Depends: libmutter0d but it is not installable

Grab it from Ubuntu repo:
http://packages.ubuntu.com/utopic/libmutter0d

[way12go]

I tried adding deb urls and found out that it doesn't work for this distro so I simply deleted the source.d file and updated. There is no need to try this.

[drik]

It's a desktop like LXDE or XFCE...

[GeneC]

I have been running Evolve OS with Budgie for some months, also have Budgie installed from AUR on my Manjaro install.  Nice desktop.




I spoke with the developer Ikey Doherty on his forum and he suggested the only way for it on Debian was to compile from source...

Re: Budgie Screenshots
Postby GeneC » Wed Sep 03, 2014 3:53 pm

ikey wrote:
.....
I don't mind having Budgie in the Debian repos (Michael Hall from Canonical suggested to) but I don't particularly want
to maintain the packaging itself.

PS
I tried to installed Budgie on Debian from the PPA, but of course it was a no go with missing depends.

GeneC
Evolve A4
Sparky XFCE
Manjaro .9.0dev Cin 2.4

Post by ikey » Wed Sep 03, 2014 4:02 pm

Might work on (Debian) testing, but would need to be compiled from git :)

[pavroo]

Might work on (Debian) testing, but would need to be compiled from git :)

That's right :)
http://sparkylinux.org/forum/index.php/topic,2841

[pavroo]

I have compiled it on 32 bit system as well.
After a few small problems quick solved on the project's github page, I am gonna build debs.
The 32 bit desktop freeze down a few times, but 64 bit version works fine.

As I checked, the Budgie Desktop consumes:
- 32 bit version ~ 200 MB of RAM
- 64 bit version ~ 400 MB of RAM

An opinion is yours.

[drew]

Does it run Gnome Shell or a derivative? I always found GnomeShell/Mutter to perform very poorly on my hardware. Otherwise, I like the look of it, it reminds me of google chome os.

[Justin]

It is not based on or derived from Gnome-panel. It's built entirely from scratch.

To install on Debian Jessie (needs this due to GTK requirements): https://evolve-os.com/wiki/Budgie/Install

[GeneC]

Hey Justin... :P

[Justin]

Hey  :)

[drew]

Great job Justin! Runs like glass on a low end laptop with compositing enabled...quite an achievement  :)

[Justin]

Thank Ikey for that, not me. Great to hear though!