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2017-01-25 |
Budgie desktop to use Qt |
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The Solus project, home of the Budgie desktop environment, is looking to make some significant changes to the technology underlying Budgie. The Budgie desktop is currently integrated with GNOME and GNOME's applications. However, as GNOME evolves the Budgie developers have had to adjust their software to match. Ikey Doherty explains: "Originally, Budgie intended to integrate with GNOME applications. What actually happened is that it then fully integrated into the GNOME stack. We got our integration, but at a heavy cost. Over time, as GNOME has evolved, every single major release of GNOME has caused issues for Budgie. This is from 3.10, when Budgie first began, all the way through to GNOME 3.22. Whether it’s API or ABI changes, components eating other components (such as Mutter folding in cogl and clutter), many, many theme and widget breakages, GdkScreen APIs no longer functioning the same, or even segfaults caused due to the behaviour of GSettings relocatable schemas being changed.. You get the idea. Let it be known, this post is not designed to insult or belittle GNOME. The fact of the matter is, as a project, I have tremendous respect for GNOME. They have a vision and intend to see it through. Unfortunately, this has made it difficult for a project with the complexity of Budgie to then reuse those same components of GNOME." Looking ahead, the Budgie project will migrate to the Qt framework for future development. Qt is a popular toolkit for desktop development and is current used by the KDE Plasma, Lumina and LXQt desktop environments. |
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