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VoyagerOS - Devlog 3

Improving the desktop

This update was mostly about making VoyagerOS feel less like a collection of windows and more like a real desktop.

I expanded the virtual filesystem with proper file operations and added more shell commands like find, grep, stat, df and man. The manual was also rewritten to make the terminal easier to use.

Desktop workflow

The desktop gained right-click context menus, a system monitor and better file management.

Dragging windows and icons also needed a rewrite. The old mouse-based system became unreliable, so I switched it over to Pointer Events, which made dragging much smoother and fixed several issues.

Desktop icon positions are now saved using LocalStorage, so the workspace stays the way you left it.

Small improvements

There were a lot of smaller changes too:

Better mobile support using 100dvh
File properties and rename improvements
Cleaner terminal output
Improved process information
General UI polish

The desktop is now in a much better place.

Next I’ll be expanding the ship software itself, adding more applications and filling the filesystem with logs, manuals and mission data.