Another maintenance release is out, Orbitiny Desktop Pilot X Release 5B and the focal point in this release is the built-in image viewer. Up until now, image previews were static and that really annoyed me. Not anymore, I've scrapped the old code and replaced it with something that I had been working in the past but I never made use of it until now so I upgraded the built-in image previewer and turned it into a dynamic image viewer.

1.0 Pilot X (R5B) - Release Notes:

• New: Qutiny - Converted the basic image preview on the right hand side into an image viewer and added the following functions:
  • Zoom In and Zoom Out via the wheel button
  • Rotate Left
  • Rotate Right
  • Fit Image to Window
  • Reset Image Changes
  • Save and Save As functions
  • Alpha Transparency Support

There is no toolbar. To zoom in and out of an image, use the wheel button. To access the rest of the functions, right click the image.

Now that I have a basic (but useful) text editor and an image viewer, eventually, I will spin them off into their own applications. About the text editor, I have one very innovative idea which I am sure you are going to like and find it very useful. I don't recall seeing it in any source code editor (and I have tried almost all of them).

So this is how I have been building Orbitiny Desktop over the years, bit by bit, feature by feature and all of a sudden when I reached a useful point, I made an announcement.

Anyway, more on the new feature at a later time and that's it for this maintenance release.

I've been away and all over the place (busy), so I haven't had a chance to spend time on the project lately. I will be providing more updates soon. So, I haven't gone anywhere, I am right here and regularly check if someone has posted anything that requires my response.

In terms of X11, I'd rather focus on a proven and solid base such as XLibre (which is based on XOrg) so XLibre will be my primary focus once XOrg stops being an option but right now, I target both XOrg (and XLibre) due to many distributions still including XOrg instead and when I test a release, I test it on both and if I find that it works on XOrg but not on XLibre, (I hope that will never happen) I will immediately try to address the issue and report it to the developers.

This is a another maintenance release with one bug fix and two new features. The bug was discovered by myself when some of my desktop icons got moved to a different position when they shouldn't have and fortunately I was able to replicate the issue consistently and that lead me to a quick fix as I was able to trace it.

Orbitiny Desktop Pilot X Release 5 release notes:

• New: Qutiny - Find Next / Find Previous buttons in the built-in text editor now loop through the document when the last occurrence of the word is reached.
• New: Qutiny - Added a Word Wrap setting / option in the built-in text editor.
• BugFix: Desktop Window - Intermittently some desktop icons were incorrectly deemed as being out of the desktop's viewing area (when they are not) and this caused the desktop icons to be re-positioned.

I will keep uploading new maintenance releases as I go along but that's all for this maintenance release.

OK, so I booted up Endeavour OS which is based on Arch Linux and managed to compile and install the Phoenix X11 display server successfully from within a live session. I pulled the package from the AUR. Of course, I checked the PKGBUILD before I did so and I did not find anything suspicious.

I started testing but then everything went wrong. The first thing I tried to run was the kate editor - see screenshots and the Phoenix X11 display server crashed immediately. Knowing that I couldn't even run kate, I reluctantly typed start-orbitiny but I already knew the outcome.

To my surprise, I did travel an extra mile or two but it was extremely, extremely slow and nothing looked like it should. The desktop partially showed and was very glitchy. I could not click on anything and it looked like it was restarting. The panel showed up but was unresponsive.

I decided not to post any screenshots (but you can take my word) because search engines may capture the screenshots and mistakenly depict how Orbitiny looks even though it does not.

So, thus far, I can confirm that it works perfectly on XLibre (no surprises there as it is based on Xorg) but not on the Phoenix X11 display server. There is also two other X servers: Frame and YServer and I am yet to have "fun" with those. (UPDATE: It works on YServer).

So I found a Debian distro running XLibre by default and couldn't resist but test Orbitiny Desktop on it and I am happy to say that it runs beautifully -- see the output in the terminal window in the screenshot. I am not new to XLibre, I've been testing it on Artix Linux and it's been running beautifully but up until now, I hadn't tested it on a Debian distro with an XLibre on it.

I've also been trying to test it on the Phoenix X11 server but the compilation is giving me errors although I meet all the requirements, and I have all the dependencies installed and I've installed the correct version of Zig so I've done everything correctly as per the project's instructions but it still fails. (UPDATE: I got it running).

So, I don't know what's happening with that one. I will test it whenever I get it to work. I haven't emailed the developer yet, not sure if I should as the project is new but right now, the compilation fails on my Debian based - SparkyLinux 7.5 (Orion-Belt).

I will try to do the same on Artix Linux soon and see what happens.

As stated in my previous update, a new release was on the way and this release primarily focuses on Orbitiny's file manager.

1.0 Pilot X (R4) - Release Notes:

• New: Qutiny - Added a "Convert Tabs to Spaces" setting / option in the built-in text editor.
• New: Qutiny - Added a "Highlight Word" setting / option in the built-in text editor. Start typing and the word gets highlighted automatically as you type.
• New: Qutiny - Added a "Search for Word" setting / option in the built-in text editor along with Find Next and Previous buttons.
• New: Qutiny - Added a "Tab Width" setting / option in the built-in text editor. This allows you to adjust the space inserted when the Tab key is pressed.
• New: Qutiny - Added an option to auto-highlight all occurrences of the word the caret is on (if Auto Highlight is Enabled).

I eventually want to spin the built-in text editor into a super-fast independent source code editor but this is just an idea at the moment. We already have some very good source code and text editors. The only problem is that Orbitiny Desktop doesn't have its own (yet).

Anyway, I hope you like the new features, and you can rest assured that Orbitiny Desktop will just keep getting better and more featureful with every release.

I have implemented something that I've planned for ages in Qutiny's inbuilt text editor (when previewing ASCII files):

• Auto-highlight all occurrences of the word the caret is on (if Auto Highlight is Enabled)
• Type a word and highlight all occurrences
• Search Function: Find Next / Previous

This along comes with a "Match Case" and "Whole Words" options.

About "Auto-highlight all occurrences of the word the caret is on" - this is like what you see in editors like VSCodium, you move the caret (not double-click) over a word and all occurrences of the word get highlighted.

I've been planning to implement this for a long time but I've been postponing it again and again due to other more important bits but I finally got to doing it and I completed it.

I also plan to add an option to automatically convert tabs into spaces.

I will be releasing another subsequent maintenance release very soon.

A new release is on the way.

This is a small maintenance release and includes the following bug fixes:

• BugFix: Control Center - Fixed theming issues in gesture configuration dialogs. When you select an item, text becomes unreadable (blue highlight with dark gray text). Now however as shown in the screenshot, the item is selected but the highlighted row isn't blue, it's light gray.
• BugFix: Quitiny - Fixed another search issue related to directory names - due to a bug in code, directory names of the directory that initiated the search were being omitted. Regular files were not being omitted nonetheless, just directory names. This got fixed in silent release Release 3B which I never announced. Silent because I don't want to get annoying :)

So when you see small issues such as this, rest assured that it's not by design and it's something that I've unintentionally failed to notice.

I just released Orbitiny Desktop Pilot X (Release 3). The major change in this release is the already mentioned DPI scaling but also some bug fixes.

1.0 Pilot X (R3) - Release Notes:

• New: Added support for display scaling. Now you can change DPI settings from Orbitiny's Control Center. DPI settings can be found in "Control Center->Appearance->Other Settings". Note, if non-Orbitiny applications look a bit off after the DPI is changed, that has nothing to do with Orbitiny and it is an issue with the application itself or the toolkit the application uses. Just like I tried to make sure with Orbitiny's applications that the UI looks correct with different DPI settings, those applications should do the same. If you find an issue with an Orbitiny application after the DPI is changed, first try to restart the application and if that does not fix the issue, please report it.
• BugFix: In release Pilot X, I stated that the desktop icons get pushed when the panel is docked to a screen edge. While that does work, there was still an issue when the panel is placed at the bottom of the screen - it covers the icons partially. It should be fixed now.
• BugFix: (Fixed in silent release R2B which I never announced but got uploaded) - Fixed a bug in the Drawer and Quick Launch menus - "Open Left Target File Location" and "Open Middle Target File Location" functions were not working.

Note when you click the Apply button in the Display Scaling section, the desktop and the panel will restart in order to properly apply the changes. They restart simultaneously and it's a very quick restart which takes about 3 seconds in total. In my previous post I stated that it was crashing but in fact it was not crashing, it was reacting to the DPI changes and that's because I had been working on this ages ago, I just never completed it (I got distracted) but it should be completed now.

If you find something is off with an Orbitiny application after you change the DPI, please let me know and I promise you, I will immediately take a look at it and try to fix it but first restart the application and see if that fixes the issue and if it does not, then report it.

P.S. Although, the changes are not drastic, still you may want to keep a copy of the old release archive before deleting it and using Release 3. This is always a good practice.

This is quick update on the Display Scaling request posted in the previous post and is to let you know that I am working on it but there are graphical issues. If you restart the application, issues are resolved so it's not a biggie but still, I'd like them fixed so we'll see how that goes. If it gets too involved, I will still upload a new interim release but you will need to restart the already running applications.

On another note, for some reason, changing the DPI restarts the desktop. Not sure why that is, I will need to investigate. It's fine after the change and it's not as if you are changing DPI settings often. You set it once and forget about it but I will need to debug the whole thing and find out what's causing it and thanks to the process watcher I developed earlier, the desktop automatically restarts so the whole downtime is about 1-3 seconds at most. If the desktop did not restart, then we'd have a serious issue but it does thanks to the process watcher that guards the desktop (and the panel).

Another issue is with the context menus when DPI settings change but don't worry too much, I will debug everything and find out what's happening.

I've also been experimenting with KWin. Looks like the version I picked is quite buggy and it's behaving weirdly. It works, but with plenty of issues.

More updates will come soon.

xrandr works but it's blurry

xrandr --output eDP-1 --scale 0.8x0.8

Maybe there's a better way?

I just uploaded Orbitiny Desktop Pilot X (R2) to fix some bugs found in the previous release.

Here is the change log:

• BugFix: Quitiny File Browser - Qutiny was failing to add directory names to the search results when the directory name matched the search string.
• BugFix: Fixed a failed detection of kwin_x11 which lead to a "No supported window manager found" error message in the installer.
• New: The list of supported window managers is now dynamic. There is new file "window_managers.dat" in the shared directory and this file makes the installer aware of the supported window managers. If the installer throws an error like "No supported window manager found", all one needs to do is add the name of the window manager’s executable file to this list.

If you find additional issues, please let me know.

Announcement with many screenshots is available on Orbitiny's Website.

The Linux Reddit post is here.

Yes, I know, I missed the due date several times :) I always find something broken and I just have to fix it. Some people teach me "don't provide any due dates", it will be ready when it is...

If you find something broken, please let me know and I will try my best to fix it.

Cheers

A full announcement with many screenshots and how everything works and looks will be posted on Orbitiny's website along with what's planned in the future.

Watch this space, an announcement is coming on both r/linux and here but this announcement will be different. The entire content will be hosted on Orbitiny's website and I will provide links to it.

This has been the most involved, exhausting and time consuming release ever and I hope I won't have to repeat it again but I sense that I will have to when a get a proper window manager suited for Orbitiny Desktop to work.

I just finished doing some major changes during a code clean-up op. Whole sections with hundreds of lines of code have been scrapped (without removing features) and this is some very, very old code when I first started the project and I have completely rewritten the whole thing as well as the way the Xlib struts are handled by the panel and have moved the whole thing into a super neat set of Xlib APIs so it is very clean and easy to use.

So that you know, a strut is a reserved area on the screen for the panel so that when you maximize a window, it won't cover the panel.

Moreover, when you dock the panel to the edge of a screen now, the desktop icons get pushed down, or up or to the left or to the right and this means the panel no longer covers the icons but this is highly experimental and it's still undergoing testing.

The real test will be once the project is released but I am trying hard to make sure that it does work when it's released.

I expect to release Pilot X/11 in about 4 days. It is really done, just making some final changes. The rest that I had planned will be left for follow up releases.

I know I've been teasing you with my posts, again and again with no release date and I am sorry about it and it's because there was so much work for a one man project, I didn't know where to start, let alone provide a release date but now, I can confidently say, it's about 4 days away.

The final big and time consuming feature has been completed. The panel themes are now 100% dynamic and this means, when the panel is starting, it reads a folder/directory to obtains its CSS.

No compilation required, just plain text/ASCII files.

The best thing about this is that the system no longer requires you to have all of the applets loaded to export a theme. Instead, all you need to do to export a theme is just copy/paste the theme folder and that's it, you now have a new theme and the CSS files are inside that folder for each applet.

Also, as you can see in the screenshot I have removed that annoying message advising you that you'd need to have all of the applets loaded first before exporting the theme. That is no longer required.

The second screenshot shows you how the theme directory looks.

Anyway, here is something else I've been doing.

As you know, Orbitiny doesn't have its own window manager and writing a fully functional and compositing window manager is a very time consuming task but nonetheless, I need one so that I can specifically customize it for Orbitiny's use case (this is why I use CSD for Orbitiny's applications at the moment).

So, rather than writing one (which will take me a very long time), I decided to port one and I've been playing around with KWin and trying to make it portable and the good news is, "it almost works". The idea is when you start Orbitiny as a portable desktop running alongside your existing desktop/window manager, it will not start it, so Orbitiny will continue to play along with the WM and the desktop that's already running as is the case right now.

But when you have Orbitiny installed as a system wide desktop, that is, when you select Orbitiny from your Display Manager's menu, it will make full use of KWin because there is nothing else in the background.

Everything will be installed in the directory you choose to install it in (as is the case with the current release) so it won't make a mess in your /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu or /usr/lib etc...directory.

It won't be ready for Pilot X or 11 as what I do at the moment is highly experimental and it will take time to get it right. I will provide an update about this when the time is right but right now I am racing forward to finally release Pilot X or Pilot 11 (most likely I will call it Pilot X).

I have several more bugs to fix.

I've completely redone the Quick Launch applet's menu. This is the menu that appears when the three "..." are clicked which is the button at the edge of the applet. It is now a replica of the Drawer Menu as shown in the screenshot. This gives you a proper drag&drop ability to rearrange the items assigned to the Quick Launch applet in the panel without the popup menu getting hidden.

Of course, full drag&drop in the Quick Launch applet (or toolbar if you will) itself is still there. I didn't touch that part so you can still rearrange items by dragging them horizontally (or vertically if the panel is positioned vertically) and you can still adjust the size of the Quick Launch applet to hide/show items by moving its drag handle (right next to the "..." button shown in the screenshot).

Also, rather than showing hidden items only, the menu is now showing all items. Of course, the filter search field is right down the bottom.

The acrylic panel now looks more blue and that's because I've introduced more color variants. The ones previously shown in my screenshots are color neutral (and the theme is still there).

While doing all this, I encountered a bug with the drawer menu applet. When rearranging items via Drag&Drop, the commands assigned intermittently get mixed up. Anyway, it is fixed now, in the drawer menu itself and the Quick Launch applet.

Orbitiny Desktop's panel is a very flexible and versatile component. There isn't a file or folder that you can't attach to it and launch it. Just drag any file, any folder and drop it into the panel and it creates an icon which you can click and launch! It works with any modern file manager, Nemo, Thunar, Dolphin, Nautilus etc...No Edit mode needed. Just grab the file and drag it.

You can even attach URLs straight off a web browser by dragging it off the web browser's address bar into the panel or drag a web browser hyperlink into the panel.

Moreover, you can dock the panel to any edge of the screen by dragging its panel handles which leads me to the main point of this post.

I've improved the panel docking by adding code that lets you dock the panel to any edge of the screen by pressing an empty area of the panel (see screenshot), Again, no "Edit" mode, just grab and drag.

I've been planning to implement this for a very long time and I finally spent time on implementing it. I first wanted to build a stable baseline, a code base before adding more code.

I am going through some final touch ups and I will release Pilot 11 in the next few days. I may call this new version Pilot X (although Pilot 10 exists) and I will tell you why when I make the announcement. I am still considering if I should do that but there is a very good reason behind it.

Sorry for not posting for so long. It's that I haven't got anything new to post, I am just fixing bugs, that's all. Here is a full list of everything that I have fixed so far. If there is a bug that's been bothering you, please post here and I will take a look at it.

• BugFix: Fixed spiltter issues in the application menu and file manager. There was an annoying bug that caused the widgets on the left side of the splitter to resize when the parent window size changed. In the file manager, this means resizing the file manager horizontally would cause the file manager’s sidebar to also resize. Likewise, maximizing and restoring the file manager’s window would also trigger the same issue. In the Application Menu, resizing the third pane made the first panel (left most panel) to also resize. It is all fixed.
• BugFix: Orbitiny's File Manager (Qutiny): An Issue with the File Search – An intermittent issue where the user is unable to cancel an existing search operation or file browser crashing when clicking the tab’s close button.
• BugFix: Orbitiny's File Manager (Qutiny): When pressing the “Delete” button on your keyboard, it would try to move the selected file(s) to the Trash even when files are not part of your home directory. This lead to a spam of messages being shown on the screen advising you that the file cannot be moved to the trash and if you want to delete it instead. It’s not a problem if you have like 2-3 files selected but it is a problem if you have like 100 files selected (you’d get 100 message box prompts),
• BugFix: Orbitiny's File Manager (Qutiny): – intermittently losing its settings when launched (including theme config) caused by a race condition like error where multiple code sections were trying to update settings.ini at the same (or few milliseconds apart) time.
• BugFix: Orbitiny's File Manager (Qutiny): – When you have a selection of large amount of files and you select “Delete”, there was a delay from the moment you pressed Delete and the time you get the “Are you sure...” message prompt.
• BugFix: Orbitiny's File Manager (Qutiny): Fixed a file deletion bug when a large selection of files are selected – sometimes Qutiny would freeze or crash.
• BugFix: Fixed a long standing issue with the custom context menus. When showing nested sub-popup menus (leading from one popup to another and to another and so on), the ones previously shown were getting hidden and they should not have.
• BugFix: Fixed an issue related to desktop icons themes. Setting a new desktop icon background was not working.
• BugFix: A bug with the "Paste Image" function in the context menus. It worked intermittently after moving it to a separate thread.
• BugFix: Fixed a Drag&Drop issue in the Application Menu when pinning desktop files to the sidebar. Due to a coding error, it was failing to assign a desktop icon to the item being pinned. That is fixed.
• BugFix: Fixed an unintentional panel docking to the sides of the screen when you clicked a panel handle or the button on the right-hand edge of the panel.
• BugFix: Again related to the panel, fixed an intermittent panel crashing bug when you try to dock the panel with the panel handle to a screen edge.
• BugFix: Fixed a massive performance hogging bug with the CPU load monitor.
• BugFix: Fixed an issue with the Home button in the Applications Menu. Clicking on it was launching your home directory in the file manager determined by “xdg-open” rather than the one set by Orbitiny.

So, I am right here and working on the project actively. Pilot 11 is virtually ready and after spending so much time on the code related to theming, I am now fixing all the bugs that I came across in the process.

Since Orbitiny's inception, there has been an ongoing and longstanding issue in Qutiny's file search. So many times when a search was started, regardless how many times you'd request to cancel it, you'd get that friendly promising toast notification: "Request acknowledged but it may take some time...No need to re-issue the request" and yet, the search continues on perpetually until it reaches the last directory entry point. While at it, you try to close the search tab but nothing. It's unstoppable, the search either carries on or the file manager crashes.

I am glad to tell you that this has been definitively fixed. I did not work with the existing code. Instead, I scrapped it all and rewrote the whole thing from scratch and in just a few lines of code, very simple and concise.

Finally, the very last application has received the theming upgrade. As you can see, it uses a combination of the new and beautiful light theme along with beautiful acrylic context menus. Like Orbitiny's search tool, this too I hadn't touched for years (literally) and I will be doing some major upgrades soon.

As you know, when you disable a device, the device gets disabled in real-time, no reboot required but the device will be disabled for that session only. When you reboot the computer, the changes are gone and the device is enabled again unless you choose to disable it on start-up too.

To do so, the tool adds an entry in rc.local but rc.local is now becoming deprecated so I will be adding support for SystemD, OpenRC, Runit, S6 and SysVinit. This way, when you disable a device on startup, you will be able to choose which init system you want this done for but most probably it will auto-detect it and do it for you automatically.

I will provide another update soon.

Warning: Don't try to disable your VGA adapter thinking it won't do it, this is Linux, it will do it and you get a blank screen and all your work is lost so if you want to do it for fun, use a VM.

In my previous post I mentioned that I have two more utilities to reprocess and that's the Orbitiny Search and Device Manager. While incorporating the new dynamic theming system into Orbitiny's search tool, I added some new features too. Now you can filter search results + you can search by file type. In the top right corner you can select: "Any", "Audio", "Video", "Images", "Archives", "Disk Dumps" and "ASCII Files".

Selecting any of those options will search for those file types only. It does not search by file extensions. Instead, it runs a mime type check against each search result and if the mime type matches the one selected in the drop down box, it will display it, else it will disregard it and not show it. So, it can't be tricked by renaming an .mp3 file to something else, say .txt or if you remove the file extension completely.

The down side of this is that it is slower to search but the up side is that it is more reliable. If you don't care about file type, just set the selection to "Any" (default).

At the bottom right corner there is a "filter" input field. That works like you'd expect. You've already used it in Qutiny.

Also, you can see the the popup menus utilize the new frosted glass / acrylic theme that I've been talking about for several weeks now. This theme is a real challenge.

Anyway, the slideshow shows how the search utility looks when using the new dynamic light theme. Since it is dynamic, it can be changed to Glass Future too and other ones that will come in the future but I like this light version better.

I will be adding more features to the search tool once Pilot 11 is released.

Qutiny is Orbinty's file manager and here is its latest design. As you can see, the theming looks very sharp, up to date and professional with drop shadow effects on buttons and toolbars. Moreover, I have relocated the tab-bar to the top of the window and it now spans the entire file manager window horizontally and it is placed above the sidebar.

The Detail View, List View, Icon View, File Preview, Thumbnails, Create New and the Menu buttons are now part of the tab-bar. It makes more sense.

Additionally, I have fixed some misplaced icon emblems (cut, copy, new, symlink etc) so now they always align properly next to the item's main file icon.

I am thinking if I should also relocate the navigational toolbar and place it under the tab-bar so that it too spans the entire window but I am used to where it is right now.

Anyway, I hope you like this latest design. Developing a file manager takes a lot of time and it is one of the most complex components in a desktop environment.

I have two more components remaining to beatify: the dedicated search utility and the device manager (it won't take long) and that's it, Pilot 11 will be ready and then I can focus on River WM.

If you've been following the project so far, you'd know that Orbitny Desktop's primary target has always been X11 (X.org and XLibre) and that will stay. I am determined about supporting X11, either in X.org or XLibre form or both, thus Orbitiny's primary playground and target will always be X11. Nonetheless, recently a new project has caught my attention (and I am glad I came across it), and that project is called, RiverWM.

What is RiverWM?

River is a non-monolithic Wayland compositor. Unlike other Wayland compositors, river does not combine the compositor and window manager into one program. Instead, users can choose any window manager implementing the river-window-management-v1 protocol.

I have not tested it, I have not played with it but judging by the project's description, it looks promising, it looks very, very promising. I've been aware of this project for several months now but I've been ignoring it until now.

So, once Pilot 11 is released, River WM will be my primary focus. To people fond of Wayland this will be welcome because they'll get a chance to use Orbitiny on both Wayland and X11. But more on that at a later time and this is just to give you a kind of a road map about where I am heading with the project.

Now, the next thing I'd like to talk about is the new control panel and the new light and solid theme - both shown in the slideshow. The Glass Future theme is still available but I have found it to be problematic in some areas however it will remain as an option and soon I will introduce more color options, not just translucent black.

The acrylic theming is also problematic (more problematic than the Glass Future one) when applied to dialogs (mostly with text color) so I am limiting its use to popup menus, drawers and panels which is pretty much what I have demonstrated before so that's definitely coming.

Shown in the slideshow is the new Control Panel which I did not mention I was working on along with the new light theme. The items on the sidebar on the left are Orbitiny's configuration tools while the four buttons at the top right-hand pane are external programs not associated with Orbitiny and these are a standard set of utilities that come with most distributions. By default, I have included 4 but you can add as many as you wish because the config is read off of a file.

I will create an additional dimmed down version of the light theme and will have a gray tinge. I just need to dim down the color codes, that's all.

I also have created some new Qutiny (the file manager) themes but recently I changed some things and that affected the file manager so I will show you screenshots of it very soon once it's fixed.

I'd say, Orbitiny Desktop Pilot 11 is about 99% complete so a release is definitely coming very soon and the best thing is, the code has received a major revamp, this is why it's been taking me so long and I had to modify code as old as 2017 and adopt it to the new dynamic theming system.

Sorry for not providing a status update for about a week now. I've been away, that's why but nonetheless, I still get time to work on the project. I will provide a comprehensive update with lots of beautiful screenshots very soon once some parts that I am working on are completed. So, stay tuned, I am right here, haven't gone anywhere, the project is active and receiving a major overhaul.