budgie-extras

Additional enhancements for the user experience

Plugins:

• Hotcorners
• Quicknote
• Wallpaper Switcher
• ShowTime
• CountDown
• Automatic Keyboard Layout Switcher
• Screen Rotation Lock
• ClockWorks
• DropBy
• Kangaroo
• WeatherShow
• Trash
• App-launcher
• RecentlyUsed
• Take-A-Break
• Workspace Stopwatch
• Fuzzy Clock
• Brightness Controller
• Visualspace
• Applications Menu
• Network Manager
• Shuffler

Trash is replaced by the inbuilt version available in v10.8 budgie-desktop and as such is no longer part of the recommended build components.

Standalone

budgie mini-apps - see the individual components for details

• Budgie Extras Daemon
• Budgie Wallstreet
• Budgie Quickchar (needs the extras daemon as a runtime dependency)
• Budgie Window Previews (needs the extras daemon as a runtime dependency)
• Budgie Shuffler (needs the extras daemon as a runtime dependency)

• Budgie Hotcorners (needs shuffler daemon as a runtime dependency for full functionality)

  Installation

  By default all recommended applets are compiled and installed:

  git clone https://github.com/ubuntubudgie/budgie-extras
  cd budgie-extras
  git submodule init
  git submodule update

  mkdir build && cd build
  meson —buildtype plain —prefix=/usr —libdir=/usr/lib
  ninja -v
  sudo ninja install

If individual applets (or groups of applets) are to be compiled and installed use
the options described in meson_options.txt i.e. use -Dbuild-recommended=false -Dbuild-appletoption=true

e.g. to build just the hotcorners and weathershow applets
(remember to git clone and git submodule etc as above)

 mkdir build && cd build
 meson --buildtype plain -Dbuild-recommendee=false -Dbuild-hotcorners=true -Dbuild-weathershow=true --prefix=/usr --libdir=/usr/lib
 ninja -v
 sudo ninja install

Distros

We love Budgie-Extras to work across as many distros as possible. Budgie Extras should be packaged as individual applets - NOT as one “budgie-extras” package, so that end users can install one or more applets. Please let us know if your distro has packaged budgie-extras and how to install each applet.

• Arch - https://www.archlinux.org/packages/community/x86_64/budgie-extras/ NOTE - this installs everything rather than allowing per applet installation
• Ubuntu - use the ubuntu-budgie-welcome snap - and install via Menu - Budgie Applets
• Debian - packages are available in Buster/Bullseye named “budgie-insertname-applet” https://goo.gl/R4eF7q

• Gentoo - Overlay for budgie desktop including budgie-extras https://gitlab.com/SarahMia/sarahmiaoverlay

  

Build/Runtime dependencies

Individual applets/mini apps have build and runtime dependencies. These are described by https://github.com/UbuntuBudgie/budgie-extras/blob/debian/debian/control

Project License

The overall license for the project is GPL-3+. It is important to note, various individual source files varies from this and git-submodules have a separate licensing.

This is covered by https://github.com/UbuntuBudgie/budgie-extras/blob/debian/debian/copyright