Orbit v0.1.0

A background radial file converter and editor. Put the ring up, drop files on it, pick a petal, and the result lands beside the source as name (converted).ext — nothing is uploaded, ever.

✨ What's in 0.1.0

• 841 source → target pairs generated from a data-driven registry — 63 formats, 22 rules. Adding a format is JSON, not code.
• Convert, resize, crop, rotate, flip, grayscale, compress, strip metadata on images, audio and video.
• Merge as one job: several images → one PDF or GIF, several PDFs → one PDF, audio and video concatenated in the order you choose.
• PDF work: render a chosen page at a chosen DPI, extract a page range into one PDF, strip metadata, compress with Ghostscript presets.
• Documents: document ⇄ PDF and document → text through LibreOffice, Pandoc for Markdown, Markdown → HTML, CSV/TSV/PSV ⇄ JSON.
• OCR for images with Tesseract, in the language you pick.
• An options panel that does not cost you the one-drop flow: Alt-click a petal, hold it, right-click it, or use the ⋯. Enter runs, Esc closes the panel first, then the ring.
• A global shortcut you choose — four presets and Off under tray → Shortcut, remembered between launches. --hotkey=… / --hotkey=off for scripts.
• Four ways in: the shortcut, the tray icon, dropping files on the ring, or handing it files (orbit-app photo.png).
• A built-in engine, orbit-native, so basic raster edits, Markdown → HTML and CSV ⇄ JSON work on a machine with no external tools installed at all.
• Local only: no telemetry, no analytics, no account, no network calls.

📥 Install

Platform	File	Notes
Windows 10/11	Orbit_0.1.0_x64-setup.exe (NSIS)	Per-user, no administrator prompt. The one to pick.
	Orbit_0.1.0_x64_en-US.msi	Same app, for managed machines.
macOS 12+	Orbit_0.1.0_aarch64.dmg	Apple silicon.
	Orbit_0.1.0_x64.dmg	Intel.
Linux	Orbit_0.1.0_amd64.AppImage	Needs libwebkit2gtk-4.1.
	Orbit_0.1.0_amd64.deb / Orbit-0.1.0-1.x86_64.rpm	Declares the WebKitGTK runtime dependency.

On Windows, WebView2 draws the ring. Windows 11 has it; Windows 10 usually does. If it is missing, the installer fetches the bootstrapper from Microsoft — the only network access Orbit or its installer ever performs.

🚦 How far this is verified

• Every installer here was built by CI on its own operating system from this tag.
• The whole app is type-checked against x86_64-pc-windows-msvc on every push, and the test suite runs against real FFmpeg, Ghostscript, Poppler, qpdf and Tesseract on Linux (127 tests).
• Runtime behaviour on Windows and macOS has not been exercised yet. This is the first build you can run on either, and that is the honest state of it — please report what breaks.
• Wayland cannot deliver an in-app global shortcut: bind Orbit in your compositor (bind = …, exec, orbit-app), use the tray, or hand it a file from the shell.
• Linux needs WebKitGTK 4.1, and the full image pipeline wants ImageMagick 7 (magick). Ubuntu LTS still ships ImageMagick 6, which Orbit refuses rather than guessing; install libvips-tools or ImageMagick 7.
• Shift-drag-anywhere is the next milestone. The ring is already a real drop target; what is missing is the global trigger that summons it mid-drag.

🖱️ Summoning the ring

Ctrl/⌘ + Shift + Space by default (change it under tray → Shortcut), the tray icon, or orbit-app <files…>. On Windows, scripts/windows/install-send-to.ps1 adds right-click → Send to → Orbit, which works for any file without registering an association.

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All files are checksummed in SHA256SUMS (sha256). Orbit is MPL-2.0; third-party components and the engines it drives are listed in THIRD_PARTY_LICENSES.md.