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Budgie 11 Desktop Environment Will Be Ported to Qt 6, Development Kicks Off (9to5linux.com)

submitted 2 days ago by cm0002@suppo.fi to c/linux@programming.dev

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Now that Budgie 10.10 is out as the last chapter in the Budgie 10 series, the devs behind this modern Linux desktop environment have kicked off the development of the next major release, Budgie 11.

Budgie developer Joshua Strobl shares with us today some interesting details about Budgie 11, such as the fact that the upcoming desktop environment will be written in the Qt 6 open-source application framework, and some steps have already been taken in this direction with the Budgie 10.10 release.

The devs already wrote Budgie Desktop Services, the beating heart of Budgie 11, in Qt 6, and they plan on writing the Budgie Display Configurator in Qt6/Kirigami as well. The end goal here is to make Budgie more modular, allowing users and integrators alike the freedom to fully configure the desktop environment.

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[–] LeFantome@programming.dev 7 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I always preferred GTK and its ecosystem. But GTK is more and more positioning itself as just a toolkit for GNOME. And GNOME is more and more going not only going its own way but also not concerning itself with compatibility beyond what I will call the Red Hat Linux platform.

So I can certainly see why anybody outside of GNOME would consider migrating off GTK. I mean, this is basically how we got COSMIC as well, based off the Iced toolkit.

[–] boredsquirrel@slrpnk.net 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

just a toolkit for GNOME.

Tbh after reading a recent blog post, I think this is not true at all.

Like theming can be shipped as part of the platform toolkit or something.

[–] LeFantome@programming.dev 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Do you mean by supplying your own version of libadwaita?

[–] boredsquirrel@slrpnk.net 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Yes, as libadwaita is just one platform theme of GTK4.

[–] LeFantome@programming.dev 1 points 23 hours ago

That is pretty limiting solution though.

First, you can only have one libadwaita library installed. So, if GNOME is already on a system, installing another DE alongside it will create a conflict.

Second, livadwaita is not designed to enable third-party theming. It surfaces the capabilities desired by GNOME, which is less and less all the time. That limits what others can do.