Choosing the default applications for a distro is contentious – you can never please everyone. Fortunately with Ubuntu as its base – you can change/add/delete anything with ease.
For those testing an installed version of tech-preview beta 2 (keep updating!) these are the current default applications budgie-remix probably (emphasis on probably) ship with. Let me know your thoughts.
Themes:
By default budgie-remix ships with Arc-Theme from Horst3180 – this includes firefox styled with Arc theme . Also available is Horst3180 Vertex Theme which is equally impressive with the budgie-desktop
Accessories:
- Files (Nautilus) is shipping with v3.18 not v3.14 as in base Ubuntu. This is combined with GNOME Sushi – nice piece of software to view the contents of what you have highlighted – just press the Space bar
- GNOME calculator
Gnote – note taking softwareEDIT: GNote has removed system tray capabilities so does not integrate with budgie-desktop
- Main Menu (
AlacarteEDIT: MenuLibre) – allows customisation of the menu - GNOME Photos
- Gedit Text Editor
- EDITL GNOME Calendar
Games:
- Solitaire
- Mahjongg
- Mines
- Sudoku
Installing the package gnome-games has two dozen games to choose from – the chosen four are those that Ubuntu has selected as the default.
Graphics:
- Simple Scan
- EDIT: GThumb image viewer
Internet:
Chromium WebbrowserEDIT: Now removed- Firefox Web-browser customised with the Arc Darker firefox theme
- Transmission BitTorrent client
Not decided yet (but leaning toward firefox) on the default browser … ship with both?
Office:
- Libreoffice with sifr as the default toolbar style
Sound & Video:
- Rhythmbox customised with Alternative Toolbar and Tray-icon for controlling via the panel
- Video Player (Totem)
Sundry:
- Orca Screen Reader
- Power Statistics
System Tools:
- GNOME Control Centre Settings
- GNOME Software Centre
Administration:
- Ubuntu Software Updater
Preferences:
- Startup Applications
- Additional Drivers
- GNOME Disks
- GNOME Online Accounts
Utilities:
- Archive Manager (file-roller)
- Evince PDF Document Viewer
- Image Viewer (eog)
- GNOME Screenshot
- GNOME Terminal
EDIT: TLP is included by default – this will enhance the battery life for laptop uses.
EDIT:… and xfdashboard is available as an optional install (sudo apt install budgie-xfdashboard) – press CTRL+TAB – this gives a gnome-shell like dashboard
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Could we get a Budgie-Remix Studio version as well? This including all the software Ubuntu Studio 16.04 has.
most unusual request – certainly the first time anyone has requested this. budgie-remix is very modular – so you can certainly – and easily just install budgie-desktop within ubuntu studio and login to the budgie-desktop session and then have access to all ubuntu studio apps.
Well, I tried this and it didn’t work for some reason.
where can I found and How to install Budgie remix desktop environment in Ubuntu Studio14.04
Sorry, 14.04 is too old to install the budgie desktop session. However you can test budgie remix in a virtual machine or as a dual boot with your current os
You can’t install Budgie in 14.10, because it have Gtk v3.16 and Budgie needs Gtk 3.18v (Ubuntu 15.10) or higher
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Lollypop Music Player – best looking…
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the big problem with lollypop is that it doesnt exist in Debian and therefore not in the Ubuntu repo’s. That prevents us including in the default distro unless we as a community actively look after the packaging aspects.
I now but i recommend to install it . Lollypop shoud by default music player in gnome instead of Music. Something like mate-welcome would by nice , software butique is a killer thanks to Wimpy
Mate-welcome is certainly something we are interested in – we’ve got that as an issue on launchpadnet/budgie-remix – we just need someone to help with this – can you?
I don’t understand the reference to “software butique is a killer thanks to Wimpy” – can you add a link to what this is referring to?
I think games are not needed.
And I think you should replace Alacarte with MenuLibre – is better.
thanks for the feedback. The games are trivially small in terms of disk-space. I’ll have a think.
MenuLibre could be a better fit than alacarte – so thanks for that. I’ll do some more investigation work.
What I realised is that there isnt a real image editor in that list. Pinta is mono based so too big for the ISO. GIMP is massively complicated. Maybe GThumb?
I propose Darktable.
And maybe gnome-mpv instead of Totem – it never work for me 😦
darktable for a simple image editor (think select/crop type tasks) is perhaps too complicated – its more for photographers. Gnome-Photos 3.20 looks better but cannot use that for this release – will do for 16.10.
Gnome-mpv I’ve never heard of. Looks very new. Need to investigate this. Thanks for the info.
Can you program in python?
I ask because some time ago start develop web browser in python and gtk3, but is to hard for just one person. https://github.com/jeremi360/Crowbar
yep – mainly rhythmbox python plugins + other projects (https://github.com/fossfreedom) – with those and budgie-remix don’t really have time for additional projects 😦 … like you I would love to work with other developers – there are a lot of small projects within budgie-remix that need someone like your goodself to help out.
One person on Web Browser ? You are the Hero !!
ok – have looked at gnome-mpv. It introduces a 100Mb+ worth of dependencies. It also looks like (from the changelog) to not having many updates since september last year. So I’m not sure of its viability for the long term.
But its git is recently active: https://github.com/gnome-mpv/gnome-mpv
ok – looks like nobody has updated debian. Thanks for the info. However – the extra 100Mb would make the ISO much larger than it needs to be.
How size of iso you want?
Instead it could be just mpv – its more often update, but it only have “On Screen Controller
While mpv has no official GUI, it has a small controller that is triggered by mouse movement.” – from mpv.io
looks like mpv is the culprit – it brings in 104Mb of dependencies.
Given that I’ve added totem as a recommendation – you can uninstall very easily and install gnome-mpv without affecting budgie.
The ISO size is currently 1.1Gb – I’m trying to trim as much as I can – target size of under 1Gb … but may not be possible until (or if) budgie-remix becomes “ubuntu budgie” and therefore benefits from Canonicals auto-iso builder machines.
I’ve looked at menulibre – its much better than alacarte – so I’ll add this as a default application. Many thanks for the suggestion.
Chromium is not updated to the last version. Better skip that.
Chromium now dropped from the list of apps budgie-remix will include.