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Orbitiny Desktop Pilot X Released

ETA for Pilot 11 / Pilot X is About 4 Days

The Final Big Change for the Upcoming Release – Panel Themes are Now Also 100% Dynamic

One More Improvement Before the Upcoming Pilot 11 (Pilot X) Release

Panel Docking Improvement

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ETA for Pilot 11 / Pilot X is About 4 Days

The Final Big Change for the Upcoming Release – Panel Themes are Now Also 100% Dynamic

One More Improvement Before the Upcoming Pilot 11 (Pilot X) Release

Panel Docking Improvement

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Well, the long anticipated Orbitiny Desktop Pilot X has finally been released. Orbitiny Desktop is a new, 100% portable, innovative and traditional desktop environment for Linux + X11 (with potential Wayland support in the future). It is developed in C++ and Qt.

This is the biggest, most difficult and substantial update ever released to date and it features a brand new dynamic theming system along with many new features and many, many bug fixes.

People that have been checking Orbitiny’s website as well as the Orbitiny’s subreddit are well aware of what I’ve been working on as I have continuously been posting updates over the several months and there are simply no words to describe the sheer amount of work I have spent working on this project especially the last three months and all the problems I went through. I have literally replaced the entire foundation of the project for nearly every component part of the project.

This spans the entire source tree even code dating back to 2017 when I started with a blank window. I had to redesign everything and that lead to breaking other perfectly working components and I had to fix them and I think I covered them all. That’s why it’s been taking me so long to release this version. Due to the vast amount of changes I had to do, the old configurations and themes are no longer compatible.

Anyway, enough talk, let’s get to the important stuff – the change log.

New Features

New : A brand new Control Panel has been implemented with an integrated sidebar and a comprehensive System Information tool as shown on the screenshot below. Clicking on the sidebar items launches Orbitiny’s own configurations tools. Clicking the buttons along the top-right header launches external configurations tools that come with your Linux distribution. These buttons are customizable. You can add or remove buttons by editing the control panel’s configuration file. Also, the screenshot below demonstrates the new light theme.

New : Panel docking – Now you can dock the panel to any area of the screen by grabbing an empty area and then dragging the panel to a screen edge. There is no "Edit Mode", it works directly like docking a toolbar in an office application. The panel can be resized by grabbing the panel’s border/edge and then dragging the pointer (no edit, it works directly) once the cursor changes shape.

New : Panel docking again – You can also dock the panel by pressing and holding on an applet while the CTRL key is down and then dragging the panel to a screen edge as stated above.

New : Panel: Implemented panel scrolling. You can now scroll the content with the wheel button. It will only not scroll the panel when you hover over applets that capture the wheel event (because some applets use it to scroll their content) so that they can scroll their content instead when the wheel button is moved up or down. Once the pointer is moved over a non-scrollable applet and you wheel up or down, then it will scroll the panel content.

New : X11 Window Buttons: Added a side button next to the windows list panel applet which brings up a searchable list of running windows. Clicking on it performs the same action as clicking on the icon button.

New : X11 Window Buttons: Also introduced scrolling to the X11 Window Buttons applet. When there are two many windows open, use the wheel button to scroll the icons representing the buttons.

New : Quick Launch Applet: Completely new Quick Launch applet menu when the “…" button is clicked which is the button at the edge of the applet (next to the applet’s resize handle). This is now a replica of the Drawer Menu. This gives you a proper Drag&Drop ability to rearrange items.

New : Applications Menu: A new category has been added called "Orbitiny Programs" – clicking on it gives you access to the Orbitiny control panel applets but they will run in their own window instead like a traditional application (because that’s what they are).

New : Applications Menu: Another new category has been added “Local Programs” to the Applications...