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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

  • Targeted release: Fedora 30
  • Last updated: 2018-12-18
  • Tracker bug: <will be assigned by the Wrangler>

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.

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