Orbit v0.2.0

Orbit is a background radial file converter. Shift-drag a file
anywhere, pick a petal, and the result lands beside the source as
name (converted).ext — atomically, without overwriting anything,
and without uploading a byte.

Landing page & downloads → — direct
Windows installer, macOS and Linux packages, and copyable terminal commands.

New in 0.2.0

• Shift-drag anywhere on Windows, macOS and X11. The ring appears
  under the pointer without stealing the drag; releasing without a
  drop dismisses it.
• A real settings window: trigger on/off, global shortcut, output
  folder, watch folders, and the local history. First run gets a
  short welcome.
• Watch folders: point Orbit at a folder and give it one rule.
  Existing files are left alone; new files are converted after they
  have settled. Results Orbit writes are ignored, so there is no loop.
• Local history in an append-only JSONL file, with recent files in
  the tray, reveal-in-file-manager, and clear.
• Series output: PDF page ranges become scan (page 001).png, …;
  extracted frames become clip (frame 001).png, …; presets run as
  chains with hidden intermediates.
• orbit-cli: convert, action, preset, list, history
  with --out, --option key=value and --json, using the same
  registry and defaults as the ring.
• Wayland: honest about the limits — no global Shift-drag and no
  in-app hotkey. The settings window says why, and the tray,
  Open with Orbit and a compositor binding all still work.

Install

Platform	File	Notes
Windows 10/11	.exe (NSIS) or .msi	Per-user install, no administrator prompt. WebView2 is fetched on first run if the machine does not already have it. Allow low-level input hooks if your security software asks.
macOS 12+	.dmg	Separate Apple-silicon and Intel builds. Grant Accessibility permission for Shift-drag and the global shortcut. Nothing is notarised yet, so the first launch may need Open from Finder.
Linux	.AppImage, .deb, .rpm	Needs libwebkit2gtk-4.1, libxtst6, libxi6. Shift-drag and the hotkey are X11 only; on Wayland bind Orbit in your compositor.

Summon the ring with Ctrl/⌘ +
Shift + Space (change it in the tray or
settings), by Shift-dragging a file, from the tray icon, or by handing
Orbit files: orbit-app photo.png.

The installers carry the GUI (orbit-app). The orbit launcher and
orbit-cli are repository tools — build the CLI once with
cargo build --release -p orbit-cli — and use the same registry and
defaults as the ring.

Everything runs locally through engines already on your machine
(FFmpeg, ImageMagick 7, Ghostscript, Poppler, qpdf, LibreOffice,
Tesseract…), plus the built-in engine that needs nothing at all. The
app has no telemetry and no account, and it makes no network calls at
all; the one download anywhere is the Windows installer's WebView2
bootstrap, and only on a machine that does not already have it.

Verified where it can be. Linux has been exercised end-to-end
against the real engines. Windows and macOS type-check on every push
and their installers are built on those operating systems by CI;
runtime behaviour of their input hooks still needs reports from real
machines. Details and the full test matrix are in the README.