Budgie 10.7 is a brand new release series for Budgie Desktop, featuring major re-architectures, new APIs for extensibility, and polish to the user experience.
For a point release, there’s a lot of changes, improvements, and new features in here, as the release notes detail. The changes are all over the place – from a brand new application indexer to replace libgnome-menus, to dual-GPU support, notification improvements, general UX improvements, and much more.
Kinda looks like a windows 10 clone, with some gnome elements
What happened to the planned switch to Enlightenment’s toolkit (EFL) from GTK?
It’s slated for Budgie 11 according to this ticket. https://github.com/BuddiesOfBudgie/budgie-desktop/issues/141
It’s hard to see that as a good thing… I loved e16 etc… lots of features themability and lightweight.
E17 was always super blingy… not bad just a little too buggy to daily drive.
The problems with E17 at its core are the exact same problems that gnome has… its not built around type safety AT all. It’s perhaps even worse at it. Toolkits that can’t get the basics right, like not being a security hole in of themselves or leaking memory like a sieve…. frankly need to die.
EFL? I sure hope it’s better than it used to be…
https://what.thedailywtf.com/topic/15001/enlightened
This made OSNews a while back I think. It’s from 2015, but the level of awfulness described sounds like it could take decades, plural, to do away with.