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 window shuffler is an easy to use windows tiling capability driven primarily through the keyboard to place and move window in a grid format.

Windows can be easily quarter, half-tiled & maximized. Windows can be moved within a user defined grid and intelligently switches window positions where necessary.