The release of Deepin 20.9, based on the Debian 10 package base but developing its own Deepin Desktop Environment (DDE) and around 40 custom applications, including the music player DMusic, video player DMovie, messaging system DTalk, installer, and Deepin Software Center, has been published. The project is based on a group of developers from China but has transformed into an international project. The distribution supports the Russian language. All developments are licensed under GPLv3. The size of the bootable ISO image is 4 GB (amd64).
Desktop components and applications are developed using C/C++ (Qt5) and Go. A key feature of the Deepin desktop is the panel, which supports several operating modes. In the classic mode, there is a more explicit separation of open windows and suggested applications to launch, and the system tray area is displayed. The efficient mode somewhat resembles Unity, mixing indicators of running programs, favorite applications, and control applets (volume/brightness settings, connected drives, clock, network status, etc.). The program launcher interface is fullscreen and provides two modes — viewing favorite applications and navigating through the catalog of installed programs.
Key innovations:
- The Qt library has been updated to version 5.15.8.
- The log viewer application has been updated.
- The photo collection management application has been updated.
- The drawing and illustration creation applications have been updated.
- The package management application has been updated.
- Automatic recovery of the root partition in case of damage during boot has been ensured.
- The log collection utility has been updated.
- The package installer has been updated.
- The terminal emulator has been updated.
- Optimization of the performance mode and balanced mode strategies has been conducted.
Source: opennet.ru
