v8.2

This release is being tagged for tag-dependent packaging. It comprises 100 commits since 8.1,
and focuses mostly on stability and performance. (thus enhanced usability)

Maintainence release of v8 series for packagers

• Require GTK3.14 for now (may be revisited if someone posts patches)
• Require Mutter 3.14
• Drop crappy workarounds
• Rewrite budgie-wm component
• Implement mediakeys integration with GNOME Settings Daemon
• Fix input grabs
• Better support of GNOME XDG configuration
• Modernised Run Dialog
• Refreshed panel editor UI
• Introduce MPRIS2 client (currently disabled in code for stability..)
• ^ That wasn't worth mentioning, was it?
• Lots of fixes and things I can't remember.
• This isn't v9.

Courageous Budgie

• IconTasklist: Add pinning
• IconTasklist: Use .desktop files for quicklists
• IconTasklist: Use .desktop files for icon resolution
• IconTasklist: Support "attention" hint (blue blink)
• Panel: Support dark theme (used by default)
• Add Menubar applet
• Panel: Initial autohide support (manual, not automatic)
• Panel: Support shadow onall screen edges
• Panel: Dynamic support for gnome panel theming
• RunDialog: Complete visual refresh (bootiful)
• BudgieMenu: Add compact mode, use by default
• BudgieMenu: Remove old power option
• Editor: Add all menu options to UI
• Support from GNOME 3.10 up to 3.16 (unreleased, git)
• wm: Kill workspace animation (resolve after v8)
• And Other Stuff! (Test it! >_<)

Bodacious Budgie

• New notification daemon support (freedesktop)
• X11 tray support (temp until new appindicator comes in)
• Native popover rendering
• Various popover placement/sizing fixes
• Volume control via new settings popover (no mute yet.)
• Hide power applet when no battery is found
• Various multihead tweaks
• Scroll with mouse to change volume
• Integration with GNOME clock settings
• Split libbudgiewidgets as shared library
• Initial shadow support (bottom panel only.)
• Vastly improve session logic (fixes frozen start, multiple instances)
• Do not ship .c files in make dist
• Enable changing of menu icon and label via gsettings key (no ui yet)

Credit for name goes to Ivan Martinez
See https://plus.google.com/u/0/+IkeyDoherty/posts/MdmCnY7dCqs for "logic" or "reasoning".

v6 of Budgie Desktop

• Panel Editor
• New Workspaces Applet
• Easily add/remove applets
• Ensure distcheck/clean work
• Include GNOME Panel theme integration
• Reload menu upon changes (update/remove package, etc.)
• Rewrite session in Vala
• Use low priority callback on clock applet
• Dynamic panel size (via Panel Editor)
• Enable experimental building of budgie-wm on Mutter 3.13+
• Enable launch of prefs via right click option

Known issues:

• Adding a new IconTasklist results in an invisible applet, must restart
• Some GNOME Panel themes render incorrectly in "status area"
• Still no notification area to support nm-applet, etc, scheduled pre v7 update
• Panel context menu only works on active widget areas on Ubuntu 14.04 with
  GTK 3.10 (i.e. clock, menu, etc.)
• Sound applet still not completely implemented (scheduled pre v7 update)
• Multihead support complete and utter shite. scheduled for v7

v5.1

This release features a fixed version of budgie-panel rewritten in Vala.
As well as resolving issues like static sizing and panel
position, the automatic darkening of the panel has been vastly improved.

This release also sees the introduction of a new "BudgiePlugin" API, with
all of the applets now being loaded using libpeas-1.0 and the internal
API. The intent is that in v6 we will have a customisable panel layout,
enabling you to add or remove applets and place them in any order that
you wish.

Note: The reason this is 5.1 is because v5 was borked due to autotools
not liking the vapi generation.

Release v5 of Budgie Desktop

Do not use - broken.

v4

Note this is the last public versioned release to contain C code. From now on we're focusing on moving towards Vala with a full rewrite coming. (wm/plugin.c might remain C for a while longer.)

Changes since v3:

• Fix numerous memory leaks
• Set DESKTOP_SESSION as gnome for openSUSE users (YaST problems)
• Support system-wide (only) XDG autostart files
• Fix minimise animation
• Speed up remaining animations
• Dynamically reload menu when it changes (software update/remove/install)
• Enable use of panel-main-menu keybinding to launch Budgie's main menu
• Several BudgiePopover performance tweaks
• Implement suspend support in the session dialog
• Introduce a new run dialog (preview, linked to panel-run-dialog keybinding) - written in Vala.

v3

v3 release of budgie-desktop for Evolve OS and other Linux distributions.

Many things have changed, most notably cleaner and more efficient code, the panel auto-darkens
when a window is maximized, we now use an efficient shaped window for the BudgiePopover to
ensure it works with most themes and configurations.

v2

This version of budgie-desktop comes with many changes over its predecessor.

Notable improvements:

• Visually improved menu
• Basic sound applet (passive, no ability to control volume yet)
• Power applet more accurate
• Weird border rendering fixed
• New logout confirmation dialog has been added
• Logout dialog also permits shutdown + restart via systemd
• "Hover" highlighting for icon list items

Please note, again, the version number is not indicative of stability. There are many more
items to be addressed and it is still early days for budgie-desktop. Help by reporting issues,
or by sending a pull request for review.