[WIP] budgie-desktop: init at 10.2.2

[jgillich]

The Budgie desktop environment from Solus. Still a few things to do, hoping to get some feedback.

Known issues:

• The task list panel applet doesn't seem to work
• SSH does not ask for password ($SSH_ASKPASS is set so I'm not sure why)
• Should default to Arc/Moka themes

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[jagajaga]

👍 👍

[vcunat]

There's this problem with deepClone that the hash changes. It doesn't match already.

[vcunat]

If I start the panel stand-alone (without using the nixos service), it seems mostly fine except that the main menu is empty. EDIT: to be clear, this isn't really mandatory for merging the PR.

[jgillich]

Hmm, but the submodule is fixed to a commit hash, what causes the hash changes? And what alternatives are there, ask upstream for proper release tarballs? (I looked over #8567, but couldn't find an explanation - it makes sense for leaveDotGit, but why is deepClone affected?)

The panel menu probably depends on environment.pathsToLink = [ "/share" ] to discover the desktop files.

[vcunat]

what causes the hash changes?

I don't know why it happens. Likely there are bugs in the implementation.

[jgillich]

Ah, there actually are proper tarballs now, so I can just use fetchFromGithub.

[vcunat]

fetchFromGitHub needs no proper tarballs; it's meant for fetching (and unpacking) dynamically generated archives.

[jgillich]

Yes I got confused, fetchurl is the right one since fetchFromGitHub uses the GitHub archives that don't include submodules.

[jgillich]

Closing because I currently have neither time nor interest to finish this. The branch is still there in case someone wants to continue.

[trusktr]

@Mouvedia I'd like to try Budgie. What's different about it? Is it basically Gnome with tweaks (like the bar at the bottom of screen instead of only in the Activities view, etc?

[Narice]

@trusktr I've used it for a while as my first DE and it's extremely snappy, I think that's the main thing. It's also very elegant and in my opinion well thought out in general! As a new linux user at the time (switching from windows) I wasn't lost or anything, it was very intuitive and you could customize things here and there. I hope that helps!

It would be dope to have this package in nix!