another revised edition coming; I appreciate the dedication by BoB. Although as a user I like gnome-screenshot better than the budgie-screenshotbecause the gnome app resolution always looks better than the DE one even though they are
Bug Fixes:
System Tray icon scaling will now be correctly applied on initial launch, fixing a bug where you needed to toggle the scaling on and off again for it to re-apply in the "off" position. #467
Fix custom icon path reading in System Tray, resulting in an unresponsive panel over time for some users. #456
Added fallback logic to our AppInfo fetching for Notifications. Some applications (such as nemo and streamlink-twitch-gui) have a mismatch between the desktop-entry they provide and their desktop file. In cases where the hint fails, we will now try to guess the ID using the application's name given to us from DBus. #477
Improvements:
Budgie Screenshot will now use a more limited scoped directory for the temporary image it generates. This temporary image will attempt to store itself as .budgiescreenshot_tempfile in the user's XDG_RUNTIME_DIR, falling back to the user's HOME directory if that runtime directory does not exist. This is more aligned with the XDG Base Directory Specification, which specifies that user-specific runtime and other file objects should be placed in XDG_RUNTIME_DIR.
reasons are sensible. that means some of solus de’s will be wayland too
notable quotes from that BoB announcement–
“We have been excited to see the maturing of Wayland protocols, Wayland compositors, as well as the broadening support by vendors such as NVIDIA on Wayland adoption (e.g. finally supporting GBM).”
" While it is likely that Plasma will continue to have X11 support for the foreseeable future, their plan is to [default to Wayland in Plasma 6. Meanwhile, it is proposed that Fedora KDE and Kinoite will focus entirely on the Wayland session."
" X.org Server has been deprecated in Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) since 9.0 in May of last year…Understandably it does not make financial sense for Red Hat to continue investing engineering resources into maintenance of X11 support, when Wayland support is likely already in a sufficient position for many Red Hat customers, and when Red Hat is almost certainly under market pressures that would encourage divesting in X11 and re-allocating those engineering resources."
“Wayland support under Mutter, the window manager / Wayland compositor developed by GNOME, has continued to evolve and improve.”
“As we look to address immediate user needs as well as our goals for Budgie 11, we have decided to take a proactive approach in making Wayland support a reality within Budgie 10 series.”
I personally see nothing wrong with X11—which RHEL will nurture for 11 more years (by my math) before retiring–but I’m not going to fight the future, as it were. Not my battle.
