Lidshell (will be) designed to scale to any screen it's put on, thanks to being entirely vector based from its first day. Every curve, every edge, and every font is completely flexible. The end result is something this project thinks is beautiful.
Zoom into anywhere in the interface with a simple flick up or down of two fingers or by scrolling on a mouse. It's legit exciting to see and feel it working for the first time.
lidslate (will be) designed to be like the usual mobile environments you've used, but unlike any mobile environment you've used. While you'll notice the usual grid of apps that greet you...
What you'll find new here is that Lidshell also understands not everything needs to stay flat and square. Everything from apps themselves down to their icons don't have to be confined to one shape.
Lidshell also hopes to go beyond the trends and do things it's own way. It's why you'll notice apps aren't rounded square cards like everyone else's, but instead openly defy it with cut edges and an off angle design.
And though you've probably noticed it already, there's not the usual plastic tape you see everywhere here. Lidshell instead is designed to use glass in places where it makes sense and not where it doesn't.
Human access at the heart of the environment is a design goal for lidslateOS both now and going forward. You won't find an 'Accessibility' preference anywhere in the system because Lidshell is built to have this ready throughout the system. As a starting example, lefty mouse access can be changed with the flick of a switch or Command/Flag+Ctrl+Shift+L or R.
Everyone's had mouse keys since the ancient times of the desktop, but Lidshell takes this a step further. When these are turned off, by default, you can use option/alt + any number to summon different parts of the system.
Verbal Readout is available by default in every app, without needing any additional packages, switches, or tools beyond one verbal toggle you can turn on or off in whatever app you're in.
Changing display zoom is literally one flick away. Not hidden behind a menu or a toggle. What you'd expect in a human system is built in, not bolted on.
And of course, things like this have been done before. But... have you seen a totally open Linux-based system that'll also give you captions if you can't hear the system talking to you?
And as a rough preview of what's to come, a quick menu can be summoned anytime either with the nav pad on the right of the visor, or even a simple contextual gesture or click. lidslate will be bold enough to say no other Linux-based system or environment has anything like this... and this isn't where these features stop, but rather begin.
Lidshell 0 will be a first step into a new world, and is just an unfinished preview. And it's this project's hope that you look forward to every minute you'll have with what's to come from what you see with 0.
lidslate is completely free and open source software, and starting with the first preview, everything will be available on GitHub.