The release of the Deepin 20.6 distribution kit, based on the Debian 10 package base, but developing its own Deepin Desktop Environment (DDE) and about 40 user applications, including DMusic music player, DMovie video player, DTalk messaging system, installer and installation center of Deepin programs, has been published. software center. The project was founded by a group of developers from China, but has been transformed into an international project. The distribution kit supports the Russian language. All developments are distributed under the GPLv3 license. The size of the bootable iso image is 3 GB (amd64).
Desktop components and applications are developed using C/C++ (Qt5) and Go. The key feature of the Deepin desktop is the panel, which supports multiple modes of operation. In the classic mode, a more explicit separation of open windows and applications proposed for launching is carried out, the area of ββ\uXNUMXb\uXNUMXbthe system tray is displayed. Efficient mode is somewhat reminiscent of 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 displayed in full screen and provides two modes - viewing favorite applications and navigating through the catalog of installed programs.
Main innovations:
- Added support for filtering and classifying search results with separation of found applications for Linux, Windows and Android platforms in the Application Manager.
- Added settings and tools to the web browser to automatically clear session data. Encrypted cookie storage is enabled by default.
- Support for managing logical volumes has been added to the Disk Utility.
- During installation to disk, you are given the option to select the size of the root partition.
- The interface for information search (Grand Search) now has support for splitting the display of found files depending on the time of modification and the directory with the file, which can be useful when searching for files with the same name.
- Improved the accuracy and speed of the Optical Character Recognition (OCR) application.
- In the file manager, the interface for moving files in drag&drop mode has been optimized.
- Added settings for a reminder in 15 minutes, an hour, 4 hours, and the next day to the scheduler calendar. Provided support for defining custom event types.
- Support for encoding using Gstreamer has been added to the camera program.
- The mail client supports adding accounts and managing messages using the Exchange protocol. Added calendar. Scaling of the image preview in the email body is provided.
- Support for JPEG, PBM, PGM, PPM, XBM and XPM formats has been added to the Draw drawing program.
- In the program for maintaining voice notes, the ability to select a font for text has been added.
- Improved accuracy of encoding detection in the text editor.
- The Linux kernel has been updated to version 5.15.34, the kernel module is enabled by default with support for the NTFS3 file system.
- Added new network drivers for rtw89 and bcm adapters ported from kernel 5.17.
- Updated NVIDIA graphics drivers to 510.x branch. A package with NVIDIA open drivers has been added to the repository.
- The Qt library has been updated to release 5.15.3. Updated firmware for graphics cards.
Source: opennet.ru