Budgie 10.6

joluveba

alfisya That's disapointing. I got used to Plata-Noir and end up liking it very much.

Plata-Noir is very beautiful. If I'm not mistaken Solus Mate uses it too.

tomscharbach

EbonJaeger it looks like a theme issue and Plata appears to no longer be maintained.

I've noticed, testing other Budgie implementations (e.g. Ubuntu Budgie) in VM's, that Plata-Noir is no longer offered as an option (e.g. Ubuntu Budgie 20.04 offers the Plata-Noir theme but Ubuntu Budgie 21.10 does not). Available Ubuntu Budgie 21.10 themes (e.g. Pocillo) seem washed out in comparison to Plata-Noir.

I did not realize that Plata-Noir was no longer maintained. The Budgie project will have to do the best it can with available themes, I guess, but it is sad news to be losing Plata-Noir.

sangheeta

What about translation?
Because I only have the desktop right clic for settings that is still in english for now.

Also the shadow under panel (transparent here) is not there:

EbonJaeger

sangheeta Budgie Desktop View never had translations. Hopefully it will soon, though! The structure for it is in place.

As for the shadow, that appears to be intentional with Materia theme; the line setting the box-shadow it is commented out in the theme. :/

EbonJaeger

GZGavinZhao the latest branding package update now also depends on the Materia dark theme, so this should no longer be an issue for people going forward.

tomscharbach

EbonJaeger The Budgie project did a good job of implementing the Materia dark theme and Budgie 10.6 in general. I adjusted font size to adapt the screens to my aging eyes, but otherwise the transition is painless, and the elegance, simplicity and intuitive nature of Budgie has been preserved. Congratulations and thanks to you and the other members of the Budgie project.

alfisya

Hi, I just got the update to budgie 10.6. I found a problem with icon task list applet, if "restrict to workspace" is toggled on, every time I launch application the icon doesn't show up on the panel. Anybody has the same problem?

PS: Materia-Dark is OK after all 😄

WetGeek

alfisya PS: Materia-Dark is OK after all

I think that's an understatement. I've never been able to enjoy using any dark theme, so far, until this one. Usually I find them harder on my eyes, so I just use a light theme and turn the screen brightness down a bit.

But Materia-Dark is somehow different. It still makes it easy to distinguish the various parts of a client area with judicious use of shades of gray. It's just better than dark themes I've tried before, and very usable, IMHO.

I'm writing this post from my Budgie VM, and I intend to spend the day here, to get a really good feeling for Budgie 10.6.

EDIT: Wow! Text scaline is no longer just 100% or 200%. Having set it to 125% I can now clearly read all text on my 1920x1080 laptop screen (like, for example, here in the forum). That's one of the two reasons I use Plasma instead of Budgie on my daily driver laptop and the media machine that drives our TV. (I should say, that was one of the two reasons. That one doesn't exist anymore.)

EbonJaeger

alfisya this looks like something that should be reported here at the Budgie GitHub. If you or someone else with the issue could do that, that would be wonderful. Thanks!

sangheeta

yes, me too.

Lucien_Lachance

smooth update here.
thanks to all involved

WetGeek

WetGeek That's one of the two reasons I use Plasma instead of Budgie on my daily driver laptop

In fact, of the six Solus machines here, it's only my main laptop where I make good use of 10 virtual desktops. On the other five, Budgie 10.6 would work quite well. If my "A Day on Budgie" project goes well today, I'll strongly consider returning to Budgie. The Materia-Dark theme suddenly makes that a very attractive possibility.

I never did have any problem with Budgie other than limited virtual desktops, and useless video scaling. The second of those no longer exists, and the first is only an issue on one machine out of six in this house. If I find that I can live with only 8 workspaces during today's experiment, maybe like the Terminator, "I'll be back"!

murbert

WetGeek EDIT: Wow! Text scaline is no longer just 100% or 200%. Having set it to 125% I can now clearly read all text on my 1920x1080 laptop screen

Where do you find this setting???

Solarmass

Meh, not a fan of Materia theme, it looks like yet another gray theme.
I prefer dark/black Panel and dark/black header-bars, not gray.
I will continue to use Plata-Noir theme till the end even tho notifications now look bad.

I always like these cool, slick Budgie dialogs:

WetGeek

Solarmass I prefer dark/black Panel and dark/black header-bars, not gray.

Isn't it wonderful that each of us can have a theme that works best for us? Materia is the first dark theme that works for me. I'm sure that Plata-Noir isn't going anywhere.

alfisya

EbonJaeger My first github issue. Hope it can be fixed. Cheers!

Solarmass

WetGeek sn't it wonderful that each of us can have a theme that works best for us? Materia is the first dark theme that works for me. I'm sure that Plata-Noir isn't going anywhere.

The problem is that Plata-Noir will become more and more outdated and not supported 🙁

WetGeek

Solarmass The problem is that Plata-Noir will become more and more outdated and not supported

Is that a prophesy? Or do you have it on good authority that its days are numbered?

WetGeek

murbert Where do you find this setting???

EbonJaeger

WetGeek the last commit to it was November 3, 2020. And there's been no response to filed issues for even longer than that.

WetGeek

EbonJaeger the last commit to it was November 3, 2020. And there's been no response to filed issues for even longer than that.

In that case, I'm sincerely sorry for its fans. And it's pretty clear that the existence of Materia has nothing to do with that. I notice that Plata-Dark is still available in the Budgie desktop settings, though, so its demise is not a clear and present threat to its users. I'm thankful for that.

It reminds me of my recent experience with the Pisi distro.

murbert

WetGeek Oh, that's been doable for ages. Mine is set to 1.55. I was hoping you had mis-typed as I'm looking for proper fractional scaling of the whole display. Someday perhaps.

WetGeek

murbert I was hoping you had mis-typed

No, not mistyped. Misunderstood, perhaps. The last time I looked at that setting in Budgie, the only choices were 100% and 200%. Neither worked well for my laptop nor the video streaming computer that drives my 4K TV.

Whenever it was changed, I'm glad it's there now.

I'm consused about the rest of your comment, though. What does that setting not affect on Budgie? I ask, because that might be important to me as well, given that I'm considering changing back to Budgie for all my computers here. I haven't noticed anything else (yet) on this VM.

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