The battery applet is virtually ready, and I am just testing notifications. When you plug in/out your charger, you get a toast message / notification about it confirming the battery status (plugged in / charging or discharging) in real time. You also get similar messages when you hover its icon (the applet icon on the …
I will make this available as a separate download and you won’t even have to restart the panel. Just drop it in the orbitiny/data/orbitiny-panel.d/plugins.d directory and then Right Click->Applets and the applet is there. A true Plug&Play. Look all the way to the right, next to the speaker icon. I am almost done with that. …
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I am happy to announce the release of Orbitiny Desktop Pilot 9G. This is an important release because it fills two more gaps for a more complete desktop experience. Now, when Orbitiny is installed system-wide and selected from the Display Manager menu, it applies your monitor configuration set with the Orbitiny’s Screen Configuration tool. If …
Alright, so, the Alt+Tab Task Switcher has been completed and as you’d expect, it is its own application so it‘s running in its own memory space and by now, I think you know what that means but in case you don’t, it means that in the event of a crash, it won’t take the entire …
I am happy to announce Orbitiny Desktop Pilot 9F. This release removes an artificial 4-seconds startup delay (it was there for debugging reasons) on startup and brings you the long awaited PipeWire Audio support and with this latest add-on I have filled one more gap for a full desktop experience and coming up next is a …
So, in the previous release I introduced several innovative functions in the context menus but that increased the size of the menus. Because these are non-standard features, I decided to move those features into a submenu and this is the end result. When you right-click a file, you get the standard features you’d expect (with …
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I am aware of the missing Alt+Tab application switching and I’d like to assure you that it will be implemented/completed very soon. It is one more gap to fill. I already have the code throughout the project. It is a matter of consolidating it together into a new application. For example: the dashboard already shows …
PipeWire support is now complete and it works even better than the original Pulse Audio support implementation. Below, I have uploaded three screenshots of various themes along with the PipeWire sinks and sources displayed. Like I said, for this one, I had to change distros but for the sake of the project’s development, now I …
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I am happy to let you know that the support for PipeWire Audio is nearly complete and I am typing this post after successful tests. The only thing remaining is integrating theme support and we’ll be done. How does it work? Rather than creating a new applet called “PipeWire Audio“, I decided to use the …
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I am adding PipeWire support to Orbitiny Desktop. To be more specific a PipeWire Audio Volume Control applet for the Orbitiny Panel. This is one of those core components that’s missing so one by one, I am adding each and every vital component for a complete Desktop Environment experience. Unfortunately, I will have to switch …