Qutiny (The File Manager) Has Gone Acrylic / Introducing the New Frosty Qutiny Theme (Work in Progress) – Screenshot

Here is the first official look of Qutiny’s completely new acrylic theme. As always, this is work in progress and the code behind it giving it this look is highly experimental. It takes a significant amount of time to get it right and that is why I wasn’t focusing on it. I wanted to get …

Orbitiny is Getting Acrylic

So after a small pause (break) in development, I decided to jump back to it and I started working on Orbitiny’s acrylic theming so here is the initial screenshot of Orbitiny’s acrylic panel along with its application menu. In this screenshot, I’ve removed all of the widgets except for the application menu for better observance …

Orbitiny Desktop Pilot 10CB is Out

Release notes: BugFix: Fixed “Run as Root” not working when invoking a shell script when the option is set from Orbitiny Panel’s applets (Launcher, Drawer, Quick Launch etc) New: Included and incorporated xdotool with Orbitiny. To make use of it from within Orbitiny’s session, use $XDO_TOOL instead of xdotool.  

Orbitiny Desktop Pilot 10C is Up

Well, that didn’t take long. Very, very sorry for these mishaps… BugFix: Fixed a disk view bug in Qutiny side bar – unmounted partitions appear as mounted. BugFix: Fixed a bug causing the default file manager not to open when mounting a partition from the desktop’s mount points context menu.  

Orbitiny Desktop Pilot 10 Released – With Automatic Configuration of Settings when Orbitiny Starts (as a System Wide Desktop)

I am happy to announce the release of Orbitiny Desktop Pilot 10 and for the first time since Orbitiny’s initial release, Orbitiny Desktop now meets nearly all the necessary and fundamental functionalities required for a complete desktop experience and this includes automatic startup configuration (when used as a system-wide desktop) of icons, themes, cursors, audio …

I’ve Integrated Qt6 Configuration Tool with Orbitiny Desktop

Source: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/qt6ct-kde. The QT_QPA_PLATFORMTHEME=qt6ct is automatically exported within Orbitiny’s session when Orbitiny starts. The tool will be accessible from Orbitiny’s Control. The Control Panel is getting rather crowded now and that’s good. I will also add a category called Orbitiny in Orbitiny’s Applications Menu. Not sure if I can make this a reality within 24 …

Pilot 10 Will Be Released within 48 Hours (At Most)

Pilot 10 is literally ready. I am using it and testing everything as I go along. Everything appears to be working smoothly and as intended and non+Orbitiny customizations get applied when Orbitiny starts. It feels very much complete + I added shortcuts for bluetooth, printer settings, keyboard config, pointer / touch pad config in Control …