v1.4.0

• Latest translations
• Correctly disable & enable SSH remote login if openssh-server is installed and BCC - Sharing - Remote Login is toggled
  a meson option "ssh" is used to display SSH if the distro sshd implementation is socket based or eager based (by default)
• Remove GNOME-Online-Accounts; upstream changes are incompatible with the GTK3 implementation used in BCC. libgoa is no longer a dependency of the project and gnome-online-accounts is not a recommended package to be installed along-side BCC.
• Remove GNOME Remote Desktop Sharing; upstream changes are incompatible with the GTK3 & LightDM implementation used & recommended for the budgie-desktop
• Add a toggle switch to the Mouse & Touchpad panel; it enable/disable the touchpad whilst typing
• Update appstream data-fields to reflect buddies of budgie code ownership and use the non-deprecated license naming convention GPL-2.0 or later
• Update the GVC version to resolve occasional pipewire crashes when muting/unmuting the microphone volume

v1.3.0

• Default applications - allow one to change the File-Manager defaults - contributor contribution by Elliot
• Lots of new and updated translators thanks to all of our wonderful translators
• bug-fix: Set search button/entry as sensitive when printers list is empty
• Don't invoking Search when pressing CTRL+S - CTRL+F is the standard method to invoke Search and CTRL+S is to invoke saving
• Privacy - Clearing File History now prompts whether to empty; now consistent with emptying the trash etc.
• bug-fix: sound: Don't flip the balance and fade sliders in RTL setups
• bug-fix: sound: alerts sounds are correctly defined when choosing an alert type
• sound: Add a "None" option to turn off sound alerts
• bug-fix: network: reapply connection on device when refreshing
• bug-fix: network: add missing cancellable; this resolves odd crashing when adding but then cancelling network connections
• network: Disable DNS entry if the automatic option is enabled in the connection editor IPv4/6 tabs
• display: Add 32:9 to known aspect ratios; support ultra-wide monitors
• keyboard: country matches should not be shown under a language name; e.g. searching for Italian shouldn't display country matches
• bug-fix: ensure printing test pages work with temporary queues
• bug-fix: disable commas from trying to be used to set the host-name; previously this caused extra unnecessary logs to be produced
• bug-fix: resolve issues where the pop-up showing user avatars appeared over the top of selecting a new avatar
• bug-fix: resolve crash when cancelling from connecting to a thunderbolt connection
• Display "UPS" in the power panel if the desktop is actually connected to a UPS
• Add a confirmation dialog when attempting to clear file history
• bug-fix: Resolve duplicate entries that occasionally appear in the sound device drop-downs
• Displays: ensure all screens are updated ('snapped') when a display config change is made; for example rotating a screen that is in the middle of two adjacent screens is now possible
• Allow jumbo-frames to be used for network connections - MTU size increased to 65536 bytes
• bug-fix: where a panel does crash, ensure that panel is not the last remembered panel so that BCC can be reopened again.
• bug-fix: When searching, ensure that pressing ENTER does not activate an empty panel search nor result in reactivating the WIFI panel when on another panel

v1.2.0

This release of Budgie Control Center is recommended for use with v10.7.x of budgie-desktop.

The following enhancements and bug-fixes are included with this release:

• Add support to specify a Touchpad's click-method - using finger actions, clicking on touchpad areas, disable recognizing touchpad clicks or using your hardware default (if any)
• Support fingerprint recognition for login (a lightdm greeter such as slick) as well as the lock screen (budgie-screensaver / gnome-screensaver). Distros are recommended to include their equivalent of the Debian fprintd and libpam-fprintd packages and/or document how to setup fingerprint support and enrolment now available through through BCC - Users
• Super+Shift+P now in budgie-desktop v10.7 shows the new Power Dialog. This shortcut can be customised through the Keyboard - View and Customize Shortcuts - System
• Add printers button now longer shows the potentially confusing two equivalent buttons on the same screen
• About: Remove the Mesa prefix for the Intel Iris driver
• About: Add the distro's Build ID (if it has one)
• About: Add the current kernel version
• Background: Now shows all image mime-types - previously just jpg and png were displayed. This potentially allows desktop images to be displayed using a wider array of image types such as .webp
• Fix crash if no power profile is set manually through gsettings
• Fix occasional crash when entering the wifi page when not connected to a network
• Add missing interface name during network profile creation
• Update WWAN apn list only if device is available otherwise APN list from mobile-provider-info may not be properly loaded
• Hide the thunderbolt panel if no thunderbolt devices/capabilities are detected. This mimics Wacom panel display/hiding
• Lots of updated translation thanks to our wonderful Transifex community

v1.1.1

• Translations through our wonderful transifex community. Thank you all
• Support 5G modems on the network page
• Background image - update to look like budgie rather than GNOME Shell

v1.1.0

• Printers: Add the ability to adjust the job task priority
• Correctly turn VNC/RDP sharing off when toggling sharing options
• Fix crash when creating new keyboard shortcut without an actual shortcut being defined.
• Code quality: remove deprecations with network handling code
• Code quality: remove some deprecations for info-overview and useraccounts
• Code quality: initialise locale handling earlier to prevent glib type journal logging
• Network: Don't crash when disconnecting devices
• Network: Implement handling for OWE-TM networks
• Network: Handle networks with an ampersand in their name
• Network: Fix WWAN crash if SIM ID was not returned by the modem
• Use a frame to show sound overamplication soundbar
• Preserve application window state between restarts (width, height, maximized)
• Allow long descriptions to overflow to next line (multitaksing and displays)- this helps with translations that are longer than their english equivalents.
• Info-Overview: llvmpipe graphics is now reported as "Software Rendering"
• Info-Overview: Add some commonly used trademarks that can't be derived from the reported device string.
• Info-Overview: Remove some rare x.yz GHz reporting
• Info-Overview: Remove redundant/elaboration in strings like CPU, Core and Processor
• Info-Overview: Remove junk info like PCIe and SSE
• Info-Overview: Replace handing of trademark symbols in a more generic way
• Info-Overview: Handle Mesa information in a more generic manner
• Info-Overview: Remove trademark for the AMD string
• Info-Overview: Omit Gallium not just for AMD
• Info-Overview: Leave all caps strings as is.
• Power: Add support for a 2nd non-charging laptop battery
• Power: Remove support for power-profiles-daemon < 0.9.0
• Keyboard: Preview glib type journal logging
• User Accounts: Allow activation autologin via keyboard shortcut (press Alt)
• Build: Handle polkit version identification using polkit shipping files
• Build: Bump GLib minimum dependency to 2.70
• Build: FTBFS due to GNOME-43 desktop thumbnail API change
• Build: Remove unused keybinding file - no need for a separate -dev package
• Build: Required gnutls as a build-dependency
• Build: No longer requires libsoup2.4 as a build-dependency

v1.0.2

Micro release update:

• display sound icons when testing the sound output
• small typo fix in oc language
• version bump for gsettings schemas i.e. BCC is for GNOME 42 and later
• accommodate vendor logo display for Fedora
• Rework fractional scaling support for distros that include the mutter patch
• Support VNC Screen-sharing with GNOME 42 GNOME Remote Desktop

v1.0.1

Bug-fixes:

• Wi-FI: Enhanced Open (OWE) is now saved properly after re-editing the connection.
• Icons have been updated as symbolic versions to ensure a visual consistency across the panels and their equivalent desktop files
• Wayland is no longer a default build option

Buddies of Budgie

Budgie Control Center

Budgie Control Center 1.0.0 is the first release under the new Buddies Of Budgie organization! 🚀 🚀 🚀

If you would like to support our work, you can contribute financially on our OpenCollective, as well as buy official Budgie merchandise (non-EU shop here, EU shop here) with the profits from sales going directly to our OpenCollective!

Budgie Control Center is not just a reflection of our organization change for the development of our Budgie Desktop, it reflects an expansion on Budgie 10.x series with new features and re-architectures, applying the lessons learned from those into our next generation version of Budgie. Buddies of Budgie views Budgie Desktop as a platform rather than a product. Distributors of Budgie Desktop and users should not feel like their choice of theming, applications, or default styles should be at odds with the goals of the project.

Applying one of our core pillars of being a platform rather than a product, the goal with Budgie 10.6 and future releases of Budgie is to provide a macrocosm, or a minimal set of tightly coupled components, and leave the rest of the ecosystem up to the decisions and values of downstream consumers, be that distributions or end users.

This macrocosm in Budgie 10 series is currently the following:

• Budgie Desktop
• Budgie Desktop View: A dedicated desktop icons implementation.
• Budgie Control Center (this repository)

We expect downstream consumers of Budgie to use following:

• Budgie Desktop 10.6+
• Budgie Desktop View 1.2+
• Budgie Control Center 1.0.0+

Budgie Desktop 10.6 introduces changes to various components which expects the aforementioned forks + versions, for example schema changes for Budgie Desktop View and opening of GNOME Control Center now opens Budgie Control Center.

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Budgie Control Center is tailored for the budgie desktop; the devices & peripherals that is connected to your computer is managed by this application. The interactive graphical interface of budgie is managed through our dedicated Budgie Desktop Settings app.

Whilst Gnome Settings can and does co-exist with Budgie Control Center, the former app has capabilities that is specific to GNOME Shell. This is a fork of GNOME Control Center with various value-add such as Raven keybind support, improved fractional scaling support when supported by the operating system and and a re-organization of functionality.

Release for testing

• Title changed from Settings to Budgie Control Center to ensure there is no confusion between Budgie Desktop Settings and Budgie Control Center
• man page typos resolved
• B-C-C is now only displayed for budgie-desktop
• Keyboard shortcuts has an area specific for Raven
• Keyboard shortcuts print-screen now shows keybindings specific to budgie
• sound level bar will change back to gray color when Input/Output device list is empty.
• Display keyboard shortcut for Windows & Navigation areas that are installed by Mutter

Release for testing

This is the second interation release ready for further testing.

Changes in this release include:

1. Hiding privacy microphone, camera panels since these don't work as advertised
2. Fix lock screen options on the Display tab so that functionally they do what they say.
3. Hide lock screen notification options since they are not applicable to budgie
4. Add support for snap-store and solus-c in addition to gnome-software to enable opening applications listed in the applications panel
5. Add a means to disable alternate character keys
6. Add xkb Layout default & none options - xkb options are not changed when selecting none
7. Sound overdrive (greater than 100%) toggle added to the Sounds panel. The 10.5.3 raven option has been removed
8. Fixed a crash when opening online accounts
9. Fixed a crash when creating more than 8 workspaces
10. Hide dynamic workspace option since it isn't applicable with budgie