Budgie-Desktop is a GTK+ based desktop environment which focuses on simplicity and elegance. It provides a traditional desktop metaphor based interface utilising customisable panel based menu driven system. Budgie-Desktop is written from scratch utilising many GNOME based sub-systems such as GNOME-Session and Mutter.

The application-menu is a stylish panel applet that displays applications in different views - grid and list. Weblinks typed into the search bar can be opened in your default browser. Applications that have additional desktop options show via a right-click menu. Applications with associated actions show those actions are additional searchable entries.

Variety of options are available including grid sizing and displaying a powerstrip.