Apollo v1.0 - The Launch

📆 18 Mar 2026 21:45 UTC +00:00 📕 271 words ⏳ 2 min.
🏷️#Apollo

It’s been a journey, but I’ve made it there. I now have a usable text editor. It’s called Apollo and this is v1.0 - The Launch

Changes

New Toolkit

1.0 now uses the Qt and Kirigami instead of Gtk. The reason behind this is that I personally prefer the look of Qt apps and it allows users to theme should they wish to, which I like.

UI/UX

1.0 starts off with a fairly basic UI, consisting of simply a text area and a menu bar.

The menu bar at this time only has a File menu, consisting of New, Open, Save, Save As, and Quit. In the future, there will be other menus but I didn’t want to repeat 0.1 with buttons that don’t work, unnecessarily.

There is a padding at the bottom, ready for a new feature - the status bar, where things like the word and line count will go, alongside an unsaved changes indicator.

Features

There is a small featureset for this release, but the essentials are there.

• Working text editor area
• Opening and saving files
• Scrollable text area
• Unsaved changes dialog

Usage

Currently, the only way to run Apollo is by manually running it from the terminal. To do this.

Either download and extract the latest release from Codeberg. OR

$ git clone https://codeberg.org/OrbitalMartian/Apollo

Then ensure that the following Python packages are installed.

• PySide6

Now, follow the below steps to run the application.

$ cd src/
$ python apollo.py