The ninth release of the Orbitiny Desktop desktop environment, written from scratch using the Qt framework, has been published. The project attempts to combine several innovative ideas previously unseen in user environments with traditional elements, such as a plugin-enabled panel, an application menu, and a desktop where shortcuts can be placed. Work is currently focused on running in X-server-based environments, but Wayland support is possible in the future. The code is written in C++ and is distributed under the GPL license.
Features specific to Orbitiny include: invoking actions through screen gestures (drawing a specific outline with the mouse on an empty area of the desktop); labels on icons (shown for new, modified, empty, or files moved via the clipboard, as well as empty directories); the ability to paste a file into several selected directories at once; support for placing desktop contents in any directory (not just $HOME/Desktop); the use of separate desktop directories for each virtual desktop and a monitor. A list of Orbitiny's typical features can be found in the previous announcement.
Among the changes:
- The "Append to Clipboard" option has been added to the context menu that appears when you right-click on a file or directory. This option allows you to append the path to the selected file to the file paths already in the clipboard, so that you can then copy the files at once using the "Paste" operation.
- The "Paste to Image" option has been added to the context menu for attaching an image placed in the clipboard to the selected image file (vertically next to the existing image).
- The "Add to Paste Basket" and "Paste to Basket" options have been added to the context menu. The first option adds selected directories to a set of directories, while the second pastes files from the clipboard into the created set of directories.
- The "Image Join" operation has been implemented, allowing you to drag and drop one or more images onto another image to combine them into a single file. After the move, a menu appears allowing you to choose whether to attach the images horizontally or vertically.
- Added an interface for configuring screen and monitor settings, such as screen resolution and screen layout in multi-monitor configurations.
- Added interface for controlling screen brightness.
- Added orbitiny-screenshot-grabber utility for creating screenshots.
- The functionality of copying files (Orbitiny File Copier) and displaying file properties (Orbitiny File Properties) has been moved to separate applications that can be called from scripts to copy a group of files with a progress indicator and information about file properties.
- В Control Panel Added option to switch between list and icon grid display.
- The Drag&Drop mode action handler now supports creating a shortcut to open a URL in a web browser when dragging a URL onto the panel.
- The Application Menu, Drawer menu, and Places Menu applets now support launching menu items by pressing Enter and automatically selecting items during search.
- An option to run with root rights has been added to the Launcher, Quick Launch, and Drawer applets.
- Shortcuts for "Linux System", "Disks" and "Trash" have been added to the desktop by default.
- Ported from Qt 5.15.2 to Qt 6.10.1.
Source: opennet.ru
