budgie-desktop VS Akira

Oh yeah, no. Multiple entire desktop environments with significant popularity (Cinnamon, MATE) owe their existence today to how universally hated GNOME 3 was, and how obstinant and intolerant the GNOME developers were towards differing opinions that challenged their "vision".

In fact, the same thing is sorta playing out even right now with GTK4 and other GNOME stuff, though I think with somewhat less public spectacle but arguably even larger development efforts behind it:

https://joshuastrobl.com/2021/09/14/building-an-alternative-...

https://www.theregister.com/2021/11/08/system76_developing_n...

https://blog.system76.com/post/closing-in-on-a-cosmic-alpha

https://github.com/BuddiesOfBudgie/budgie-desktop/issues/141

https://medium.com/@fulalas/gnome-mess-is-not-an-accident-4e...

Other editions of Solus use Papirus icons (https://github.com/PapirusDevelopmentTeam/papirus-icon-theme/releases), and the Budgie project created its own menu icon recently: https://github.com/BuddiesOfBudgie/budgie-desktop/blob/main/data/icons/actions/budgie-menu-symbolic.svg

Budgie might be worth checking out (I've used it on Manjaro): https://github.com/BuddiesOfBudgie/budgie-desktop It was extremely responsive on a 2009 laptop.

Otherwise whatever AntiX and Puppy use, which are mouse-driven UIs, are probably lower-resource than Budgie.

Budgie

This is the way: https://github.com/BuddiesOfBudgie/budgie-desktop/wiki/Budgie-Desktop-on-Fedora

You might try asking at their official GitHub page or read thru the wiki there and see if it gives some info.

You claim that Solus doesn't have any, but the budgie desktop has over 70 different contributors. https://github.com/BuddiesOfBudgie/budgie-desktop/graphs/contributors

I just learned that the Budgie Desktop is written in Vala.

https://github.com/BuddiesOfBudgie/budgie-desktop

Also, on Arch I use Pamac as a GUI for package management and it is written in Vala as well.

I have used apps for quite a long time before realizing they were written in Vala. Not great for marketing but otherwise I would consider that one of its strengths.

I really wish Akira (https://github.com/akiraux/Akira) had worked out :/

Possibly Akira?

Akira ⭐ 4k+ 🍴 200+

i found the best way to make svgs is to use figma until https://github.com/akiraux/Akira goes stable

Adobe XD Alternatives: Figma, Penpot, Akira, Pencil Project

Akira. This app is still in early development, but I think it is a really nice project. It is a vector graphic editor, graphic design software and vector art app.

Thanks! I had only found Akira https://github.com/akiraux/Akira

It's a big project for sure, but Alessandro Castellani is the dev for Akira that I could see being the blueprint/framework for the app. Check out his talk at edw where he demo Akira: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1_Lyx550Js8 .