Release Distribution Deepin 20.3 , based on the Deepin Desktop Environment (DDE) batch database, and about 40 user applications, including Dmusic music player, DMOVie video 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:
- Linux kernel is updated to release 5.15 with support for the 12-generation Intel processors and the new NTFS driver.
- In the Album photo manager, the selection of images in batch mode has been improved, added new buttons for quick image processing, a preview, import and video search, is provided in the status bar there is a separate display of images and video counters.
- In the utility for creating screenshots, it was possible to recording long images covering the scroll area in the window. Built the ability to use OCR to extract text from the image.
- In the DDE desktop, a shortcut is implemented to call the global search function, which also has supported search for files with marking MarkDown.
- in the file manager in the view mode in the form of a list added the ability to move columns to change the output order. The option is provided to determine the color of the current tab. Implemented permanent display in the side panel of the mounted SAMBA sections. Provided a quick transition to the summary page when you press the Backspace key.
- The Movie video player appeared an interface with video information, added decoding settings and supported hardware acceleration in FFMPEG on systems with NVIDIA video cards.
- Advanced settings of the input method and the ability to group input methods in languages.
- in the document viewer added print output functions.
- In voice notes, it is possible to configure the output order of notes and advanced text editing options are added.