Jingos 0.9, Tablet PC distribution

Published Production distribution jingos 0.9 , providing a surroundings, specially optimized for installation on tablet PCs and touch-screen choppers. The project develops the Chinese company Jingling Tech, which has a representative office in California. The developer team includes employees who previously worked in Lenovo, Alibaba, Samsung, Canonical / Ubuntu and Trolltech. The size of the setting image – 3 GB (x86_64). Project operation distributed under the GPLv3 license.

Distribution is built on the Ubuntu battery 20.04, and the user environment is based on KDE PLASMA Mobile 5.20 . The plans marked the transition to the JDE’s own shell (Jing Desktop Environment). To create an application interface, a QT is used, a set of components Mauikit and Kirigami framework from KDE Frameworks, allowing you to create universal interfaces automatically scalable taking into account various screen sizes. On-screen gestures are actively used to control on touch screens and the touchpads are actively used, such as the scaling of the tweezing and shift pages. Supported using multitouch gestures.

For Jingos tests, developers use
Tablets Surface Pro6 and Huawei Matebook 14, but theoretically distribution can work on any tablets supported in Ubuntu 20.04. OTA updates are supported to maintain software. To install programs, in addition to the standard Ubuntu repository and SNAP directory, a separate application store is offered.


Developed for Jingos Components:

  • jingcore-windowmanger , composite manager based on KDE KWIN, advanced control support through screen gestures and capabilities specific For tablet PC.
  • jingcore-commoncomponents – framework development framework based on KDE Kirigami, including additional components for Jingos.
  • jingsystemui-launcher – Basic interface based on Plasma-Phone-Components package. Includes home screen implementation, DOCK panels, notification and configurator output systems.
  • jingapps-photos – program for working with collections of photos based on the Koko .
  • jingapps-kalk – Calculator.

/Media reports.