Release Distribution Deepin 20.4, developing its own graphic environment

Release Distribution Deepin 20.4 Based on Deepin Desktop Environment (DDE) and about 40 user applications, including Dmusic music player, DMOVIE Music Player, System DTALK messaging, installer and center installation center Deepin Software Center. The project is founded by a group of developers from China, but transformed into an international project. Distribution supports Russian. All developments extended under the GPLV3 license. The size of the loading ISO image 3 GB (AMD64).

Desktop components and application are developed using C / C ++ languages ​​(Qt5) and go . The key feature of the Deepin desktop is the panel that supports several modes of operation. In classic mode, an explicit compartment of open windows and offered to launch applications is displayed, a system tray area is displayed. Effective mode is something like unity, mixing indicators of running programs, selected applications and control applets (Volume / brightness setting, connected drives, clock, network status, etc.). The program startup interface is displayed on the entire screen and provides two modes – view selected applications and navigating the catalog of installed programs.

Main innovations:

  • In the installer changed the privacy agreement (“Privacy Policy”) and the logic of creating disk partitions is optimized (if there is an EFI section, the new section for EFI is not created).
  • Browser is translated from the Chromium 83 engine on Chromium 93. Added support for grouping tabs, collections, quick search in tabs and links.

  • The System Monitor has a new plugin for monitoring the system parameters, which allows you to more accurately track the load on memory and CPU, and output notifications when a given load threshold is exceeded or detecting processes that consume unnecessary resources.
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  • Grand Search Search interface can now be enabled or disabled in the panel settings. In the search results, there was the possibility of showing paths for files and directories when clicking on the Ctrl key.


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