The release of the Deepin 20.9 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 4 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:
- The Qt library has been updated to version 5.15.8.
- Updated application for viewing logs.
- Updated photo collection management application.
- Updated applications for drawing and creating illustrations.
- Updated application for package installation management.
- Provided automatic recovery of the root partition in case of damage during the boot process.
- Updated utility for collecting logs.
- Updated package installer.
- Updated terminal emulator.
- The strategy of high performance modes and balanced mode has been optimized.
Source: opennet.ru