UbuntuKylin

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Welcome to the Wiki of the UbuntuKylin Desktop Team

The objective of the UbuntuKylin project is to create a variant of Ubuntu that is more suitable for Chinese users. We are committed to provide you with a delicate, thoughtful and fully customized Chinese user experience out-of-the-box. For instance, by providing a desktop user interface localized in Chinese and installing common software that Chinese users commonly use by default. UbuntuKylin is a formal member of the Ubuntu family, commencing with UbuntuKylin 13.04. Currently, we are working on 13.10.

Team Information

UbuntuKylin 13.04

In UbuntuKylin 13.04, we will provide:

  • Online Music Search on Dash: Simpler and more convenient music search by aggregating data from music websites in China, to help you find the latest, most hot Chinese pop songs.

  • Chinese Calendar: Ease of use, contains the traditional lunar calendar and the Gregorian calendar to facilitate inquiries holidays, in line with Chinese using habit.

  • Weather Indicator: The weather forecast information from China meterological administration, provide effective references for your daily life and travel.

  • Chinese Input Method: As you known, both fcitx and iBus are wonderful Chinese input methods, while we decide to choose fcitx as the default due to following reasons:
    • it is the first Chinese input method in open source community since 2002, and it has lots of fans in China, especially guys using Wubi method.
    • it provides more efficient and intelligent input experience.
    • it provides skin options and more developing input engines, such as cloud-pinyin and google-pinyin.
    • Compatibility between Fcitx and Unity is improving gradually. E.g., the latest update of NUX makes it possible to input Chinese words in Dash.
    • Fans are working to make it better, such as GTK+ show, Indicator show, etc.

    • You are welcome to join the discussion at the blueprint: Using ibus or fcitx as default.

  • Cooperation with WPS
    • What is WPS: The most popular office suite in China, including WPS Writer, WPS Presentation and WPS Spreadsheets. More information see: http://www.wps.cn/.

    • The default office is LibreOffice, while you can find and install WPS in the Software Center of Ubuntu or Website of UbuntuKylin.

Download 13.04 Release

UbuntuKylin 13.10

Moreover, we are going to provide following features in UbuntuKylin 13.10 or future:

  • Features useful for worldwide users, which are welcome to be also incuded by Ubuntu and other Flavors
    • System Assistant, which provides an simple but complete GUI way for users to view and manage their systems. You are welcome to join the discussion at the blueprint: Develop a system assistant tool for common users.

    • Easy Photo Handling for Nonprofessional Users
      • taking photos directly with the camera carried by/conntected to computer.
      • simple ways to adjust photos.
      • templates to make photos better or funnier.
    • and so on...
  • Features useful for Chinese users, which might be only incuded by UbuntuKylin

    • Taobao Search on Dash
    • Baidu Map on Dash
    • Online Payment Assistant Addin for Chinese Bank
    • Realtime Information of Flights and Trains in China
    • and so on...

Please join us and contribute to an exciting international Free and Open Source Software project. We look forward to working together with you.

Getting Involved

The UbuntuKylin community consists of a group of individuals, who is making up one of the greatest teams in the Open Source community, work on various aspects of the distribution, providing advice and technical support, as well as helping to promote UbuntuKylin to a wider audience.

Please see NewContributorGuide to join us.

You can aslo join us via our development team or contact Jack Yu or Weihua Zhang.

Source Code

Download the source code and start hacking!

Bug Tracker

We work our best but there is still a long way to go. Don't be frustrated if you found UbuntuKylin broken in some way. Instead please learn how to report a bug and help us improve UbuntuKylin, that is how Open Source works and why Open Source exists. If you're not sure whether the problem you found is actually a bug, please ask in our user forum before reporting a bug, by avoiding reporting invalid bugs or duplicate bugs, you're saving developers' limited time. But if you're sure you found a bug, don't be shy to report it!

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