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DeepinDE

Summary

Package the Deepin Desktop Environment for Fedora.

Owner

  • Name: Zamir SUN - main coordinator, packager
  • Email: zsun#AT#fedoraproject.org
  • Bowen Li - main packager
  • Email: mosquito#AT#fedoraproject.org
  • Release notes owner:

Current status

Detailed Description

Deepin Desktop Environment is the desktop environment released with deepin. It aims at being elegant and easy to use.

Benefit to Fedora

Deepin Desktop Environment will make Fedora a more interesting for users who prefer another choice of a shining desktop environment.

Scope

  • Proposal owners: DeepinDE packages are already packaged and built in Fedora Rawhide (Fedora 30).
  • Other developers: N/A (not a System Wide Change)
  • Release engineering: #8003 (a check of an impact with Release Engineering is needed)
  • Policies and guidelines: N/A (not a System Wide Change)
  • Trademark approval: N/A (not needed for this Change)

Upgrade/compatibility impact

N/A (not a System Wide Change)

How To Test

You can install the Deepin Desktop Environment in Fedora like below.

If you don't have other desktop installed before, sudo dnf install xorg-x11-server-Xorg. Otherwise, just do the following

sudo dnf update
sudo dnf install deepin-desktop
sudo dnf install deepin-calendar deepin-calculator deepin-editor deepin-image-viewer deepin-picker deepin-screenshot deepin-system-monitor 

And try your normal tasks on any desktop environment.

In the interim, if you prefer to experience without installing, you can try the unofficial LiveCD we built. The are available in the following folder

https://mirrors.tuna.tsinghua.edu.cn/fzug/ISO/fedora/deepin-desktop/

Please note, for the ISO version of 20190116, we disabled SELinux in the Live ISO to workaround a known bug by the time of generating.

User Experience

Deepin Desktop Environment focuses on being elegant and easy to use.

Dependencies

N/A (not a System Wide Change)

Contingency Plan

  • Contingency mechanism: Not announce the availability of Deepin Desktop in Fedora.
  • Contingency deadline: Beta Freeze
  • Blocks release? No.
  • Blocks product? None.

Documentation

Release Notes