If you're looking to enjoy the minimalist Chrome OS desktop on Linux, we have some good news for you. The Budgie desktop, developed by Ikey Doherty bears an uncanny resemblance to Chrome OS and is the answer to all your prayers. The Linux desktop environment which is used as the default in Evolve OS hit version 2 recently. According to Doherty himself, "the look of Google’s desktop OS served as inspiration for the initial direction of the desktop."
Budgie is a Mutter-based desktop environment that is able to work with GNOME 3.10 as it comes unlike Cinnamon and Pantheon. The desktop environment consists of three essential parts: the panel, the Window Manager and the Session Script.
The panel in Budgie has been written from scratch to provide all of the necessary functionality users would come to expect from a Linux DE. Running on GNOME as is the panel seamlessly integrates with existing GNOME technologies like GTK, Mutter, etc. The panel further consists of:
1. Category-based menu with search field
2. Task switcher for managing running applications
3. Simple status area with clock and battery indicator
Meanwhile, the Window Manager is a light wrapper that uses a modified version of the default Mutter plugin that has been tweaked to bring animations, wallpaper support and so on. Budgie can run without the full-blown GNOME Shell desktop, courtesy this feature. |  |
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