Limner 0.2.0 (Quill-style panels)

The panels, redone the way Quill's work, from a contributor's design study: compact, keys first, one fixed size each, and nothing that scrolls in the headset. Everything they do is as before; how you reach it is closer to Quill.

What's new

In the headset

• Nothing scrolls. Every panel has one fixed size. Long lists (layers, files, fonts) show a page at a time with page keys, and the stick over a list steps its pages.
• No drop-down lists. A choice among a few is a row of keys; a choice among many is the value with a key at each side.
• Quill's round buttons: Tools, Color, Layers, Transform and Monitor below; Document, Settings, Performance and Export above. A layer's own settings open from its kind key in the Layers panel; Text from the Tools panel.
• Bigger keys: 30 mm across. The button map is five short pages instead of one long sheet.

The panels

• Tools: a row of tool keys, then the tool's settings in place (an opacity strip, brush keys, option keys that step through their settings and say which is on, Colorize's blend modes as keys), the guides, and the size.
• Color: paint and background colours, the swatches, a large colour square with the hue strip, and the hex value.
• Layers, with the timeline in it, as in Quill: keys to add and arrange layers and a page of layer rows (shown, kind, moved when grabbing, locked, bounds) beside the timeline, row for row. Closing the timeline is painting mode.
• Text has a panel of its own; Transform, Document and Export are laid out in two columns. Document's Open and Import lists now reach every file, a page at a time.
• New icons and the Noto Sans font, drawn and chosen for Limner by a contributor.

On the desktop the same panels are docked: Tools, Color and Text on the left, the others on the right, Layers along the bottom.

Fixed: tests no longer write to your settings (on a developer's machine they could replace the swatches with a test pattern).

None of this has been in a real headset yet; reports on how it feels are very welcome.

Windows

1. Download Limner-0.2.0-windows-x64.zip below.
2. Unzip it anywhere (right-click, Extract All).
3. Double-click Limner.exe in the Limner folder.

Nothing else needs installing. If you have an older version, delete its folder and use this one; your saved work is kept separately.

• "Windows protected your PC": the app is not signed yet. Choose More info, then Run anyway.
• Headsets: with a headset connected through Meta Quest Link, SteamVR or another OpenXR runtime, Limner starts in the headset; otherwise it opens on the desktop.
• Graphics: Limner draws with Vulkan. If it does not start, update the graphics driver first.

Windows 10 and 11, 64-bit. Tested on Windows 10 with a GeForce RTX 4060: all 632 Rust tests and 282 interface tests pass.

SHA-256 of the zip: D983A98B4C3499AD5ADCCDE28BF465B70B180B05C4738AC3FEEAC4025EAF8219