As a further continuation of our mission to provide an The Solus Hardware Config project enables us to ship configuration changes that improve the out-of-the-box experience of Solus. We still aren’t there yet, but we are on track for proper support for 1.2. bison, flex, and pam have been converted to support multilib, in addition to minor things likeįixing acl-32bit and attr-32bit. Work has continued to progress towards enabling multilib dependencies needed to provide a smooth experience for applications like Skype, Steam, and WINE.
If you have any suggestions, feel free to reach out to him on Google+ or in Proper enablement and integration of hybrid graphics in Solus.
Ikey is currently looking for assistance in obtaining a laptop with hybrid graphics ( preferably within the Republic of Ireland), so we can do Hybrid GraphicsĪnyone that has used Hybrid graphics on Linux knows the experience of it leaves a lot to be improved. For Solus 1.2, we will ship with Hack out-of-the-box. Our default monospace font has also changed to Hack, falling back to Droid Sans Mono in the event Hack is not installed.
Solus now provides a freetype2-subpixel package, which enables subpixel rendering in freetype2 ( the name of the package didn’t give it away, right?), and we are assessing providing a future USA / Japan ISO without said “encumbered” packages. Unless you’re obsessed with cat videos or staring at pictures of kittens all day, you deal with typography a lot,Īnd when there is an absolutely dreadful font or anti-aliasing just isn’t good enough, you can really notice. In my opinion, one of those things is font rendering. Sometimes the biggest improvements to a desktop experience are the things we least expect. Have multiple audio input or output devices and trouble discerning between them? Wonder no longer, Ikey has resolved this issue and will land in the next Budgie release! Font Improvements Can you hear me now? Oh, wrong audio input device.
You can now toggle Bluetooth Airplane Mode, have quick access to settings, etc. Ikey has also landed Bluetooth support into Budgie. Setting fonts for “Window Titles”, “Interface”, “Documents”, “Monospace”ĭid the improvements of Budgie stop there? No.Toggling of enable / disable desktop icons.The following functionality will also be added into Budgie for the next Budgie version: This is part of a general effort to eliminate the need for GNOME Tweak Tool for the majority of use-cases, as highlighted by The upcoming version of Budgie will see the inclusion of functionality to change your cursor theme, as shown below.
Budgie Improvements Tweak to your heart’s content These branding changes will not affect Budgie or We'd love to be able to show you an awesome video.Īs discussed in the latest Sundays with Solus, we are currently evaluating and planning branding changes to improve the discoverability of the work currently under the umbrella of the Solus Project.