Review: Orbitiny 0.01
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The new desktop has some neat concepts and lots of intriguing shortcuts. The environment is very customizabe and flexible. Orbitiny reminds me of a modern take on CDE in some ways with its drawer and flexible panel. I feel like this is what CDE might have become if someone wanted to add gestures and multiple folder actions to the classic desktop.
Some options are either hidden from view or missing. I had to dig a bit to find some configuration options and others didn't work because I wasn't running Orbitiny on top of Xfce. But what I found was generally good, especially for a first release.
I ran into a few crashes, the desktop isn't entirely stable, but I had fewer problem than expected for an initial release. I also like that Orbitiny is relatively light on resources.
This feels like a really good first attempt and, as the author suggests, it's a good balance between classic layout with modern features.
Note: There has been a new version of Orbitiny published since the 0.01 release, though I haven't been able to try it out yet because it looks like the project's Codeberg repository is off-line at the time of writing. I did find a copy of the release announcement on-line and it looks like the settings panel has been reorganized and a handful of bugs fixed. The overall design and style of the desktop seem to be unchanged though.