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Budgie 11 Desktop Environment Will Be Ported to Qt 6, Development Kicks Off (9to5linux.com)
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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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[โ€“] Eldritch@piefed.world 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Yeah for me at least it's kind of sad how GIMP has been on the back burner forever. I was compiling pre 1.0 versions on Debian back in the 90s as it wasn't in anyone's repo yet. It's been a go to software forever regardless of my DE. But at least these days there's krita for many of those use cases, and it's QT.

[โ€“] LeFantome@programming.dev 1 points 1 week ago

Now that GIMP has finally released version 3, they seem to be moving faster. I hope they are able to get more positive mind-share.

For example, they are close to releasing 3.2 that already has lots of great stuff in it. It looks like 3.4 could address some really long running deficiencies like native CMYK.

If stuff actually gets released, they may not only attract users but developers which is what they really need.