The original post: /r/linux by /u/sash-au on 2025-02-21 00:51:24.
I’ve just released Orbitiny Desktop Pilot 2B on SourceForge. This new release features a brand new Control Panel along all the fixes in the previous between-releases including the global Exit button. The new Control Panel is a complete redesign and has a Sidebar + Search functionality so it resembles the ones found in other DEs and the best thing is that It’s very light and modular and easy to manage and that gives me a lot of flexibility and convenience to add features such as a power manger, screen saver etc.
Here is a screenshot and I want to assure you all that I have not forgotten Wayland. I know that Wayland support is a must but right now I just have to focus on X11 to make sure that everything first works on X11 and I need to develop a session manager too! A lot of work but it will be done.
If you originally downloaded Orbitiny Desktop Pilot 2 (released about 12 hours ago), this 2B is a newer release, just released about 10 minutes before I posited this. After I released the original one yesterday, I found that the theme selection with the Key Up / Down arrows keys was not working and I fixed a bug with the panel’s settings not getting saved when Exit is selected. So this all comes along pretty well.
If you are new and don’t know what this “Orbitiny” thing is, here is the original post: https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/1iayzwm/orbitiny_desktop_environment_released_originally/
Download: https://sourceforge.net/projects/orbitiny-desktop/files/
For people that decide to give this a go, Thank You and rest assured that should you find anything annoying or not working like it should, all you need to do is let me know. Just report it as I always respond to your comments.