Updated news about Deepin (04/23/2014)

Today, we have updated the latest news about Deepin 2014. The following intro has covered the system and software updating info.   Bug fixes About launcher The wallpaper of launcher may shake up and down when you start the launcher. The wallpaper of launcher doesn’t change after you replacing the other wallpapers. You cannot disable the other corner navigations when you start the launcher.

A decisive transformation from Deepin Icon

A decisive transformation from Deepin Icon

It has been a week since we released the Deepin2014 Alpha. During the interactive time, we have collected many feedbacks from our users. What they discussed most was the icon style. On account of our users, we chose to replace the original icon with the flat-style icon. Based on the users-oriented services of our company, we decided to accept your advices. Therefore, our members from design group made their effort to wrap up the new change in the shortest time. A set of flat Deepin icons are as follow:

Introduction on Our New Dock's Design Concept

Introduction on Our New Dock's Design Concept

Along with the release of Deepin 2014 Alpha, we have received much of our users’ feedback on using it. Here we want to express our gratitude to every friend.   Since the new Dock is under development, some of its new functions haven’t been realized. Many users don’t know where the trays are. Hence, we will give a brief introduction on the design concept of our new Dock and trays so that users can understand it better.   First of all, let’s have a look at the layout of our new Dock.

Deepin 2014 Alpha - Be ready to embrace the New Deepin

Deepin 2014 Alpha - Be ready to embrace the New Deepin

NOTICE 1、The Alpha release is not stable now, it can be used for test purpose only. Deepin 2014 is still in Alpha release, and it is for the community users that are familiar with Linux only. This release contains some known issues and functions that are not implemented. It is not supposed to use it on production environment or as the daily used system. For those issues on implemented features and interactive, you are always welcomed to post your ideas on  Forum, or take a comment on @@Deepin Twitter.     2、DO NOT install and test on VMs. As used Compiz, a compositing window manager to provide 3D animation and Gaussian Blur effects on windows which performance is poor on VMs, ...Read more

Linux Deepin 2013 Multi-Language Installation Images

Linux Deepin 2013 Multi-Language Installation Images

A development version of the next release of the Deepin operating system will be available next week. As you may have noticed, all strings on Linux Deepin's Transifex page is for Linux Deepin 2013. So what are we going to do with all the translated strings for Linux Deepin 2013?   We have recently built a couple of ISO images based on the translation contributed by our volunteers on Transifex. A notable change for the installer included in the new images is that it now supports the installation of multiple languages. The installation image has also included the most recent ...Read more

Goodbye, Larry, goodbye, our cowboy

Goodbye, Larry, goodbye, our cowboy

Author: Wang Yong, the leader of Linux Deepin   The first time I heard of Perl language was from the legendary story about a Taiwanese hacker, called Tang Feng, who had learnt Haskell in a month in which he did developed Perl6 as well. Unfortunately, I didn’t make further study on Perl when learning the Emacs. However, what surprised me most was the efficient development based on Haskell. At last, I became a big Haskell fan. The first time I saw Larry Wall was when I attended the CSDN 2014 Open Source Technology Conference (OSTC). I still remembered the excitement ...Read more