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The GNOME Foundation is thrilled to announce the GNOME project is receiving €1M from the Sovereign Tech Fund to modernize the platform, improve tooling and accessibility, and support features that are in the public interest.

This investment will fund the following projects until the end of 2024:

  • Improve the current state of accessibility
  • Design and prototype a new accessibility stack
  • Encrypt user home directories individually
  • Modernize secrets storage
  • Increase the range and quality of hardware support
  • Invest in Quality Assurance and Developer Experience
  • Expand and broaden freedesktop APIs
  • Consolidate and improve platform components
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[–] OsrsNeedsF2P@lemmy.ml 122 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Huge congrats on everyone who got this working. €1M will really go a long way and GNOME absolutely deserves it!

Expand and broaden freedesktop APIs

I am very excite

  • KDE fanboi
[–] SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml 96 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (12 children)

I really do wish governments invested more in open source. If it's a generic thing like an operating system that the public could benefit from at large, they would be doing the public a service.

Edit: Germany does it again!

[–] Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 28 points 1 year ago

that would be a sound investment and we can't have that, the government must focus on actively detrimental infrastructure projects to put money in the pockets of rich people.

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[–] this_is_router@feddit.de 41 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Congrats GNOME!

Does anyone know if homedir encryption will utilize systemd-homed?

[–] AProfessional@lemmy.world 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] this_is_router@feddit.de 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

My comment wasn't meant as a jab against systemd or gnome, I was just curious if there are different solutions for an encrypted homedir.

I really like the direction linux, systemd and gnome are going! Big thank you to all the developers! <3

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[–] caesaravgvstvs@feddit.de 37 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Sovereignty from whom though??

Turns out, the Germans.

Seems like a cool initiative

[–] twei@feddit.de 18 points 1 year ago

yes, we are quite good at funding foss

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[–] Quik@infosec.pub 27 points 1 year ago

Great News!

[–] GrappleHat@lemmy.ml 24 points 1 year ago

This is fantastic! Gnome is such a great project! Well done!

This will sound silly, but I didn't realize that governments support open source like this. But it's such a good idea! It's similar to governments funding a park or a road any other public resource. Open source projects fit very nicely there!

[–] andruid@lemmy.ml 23 points 1 year ago

Awesome stuff! This is something that major already know, but governments are learning. You can actually invest in FOSS, and unlike renting software you can make improvements that will better fit what you need it to do and not have to pay more for privilidge in the future.

And for everyone saying KDE as opposed to Gnome, they work together you dinguses! It's a friendly competition at times, but being FOSS they can and do easily learn and grow from each other.

[–] Cossty@lemmy.world 20 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Will we finally get properly working system tray? Man can dream...

[–] TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago

They've been trying to make a cross-desktop standard for a little while now, but progress is certainly slow :/

[–] Pantherina@feddit.de 17 points 1 year ago (6 children)

I prefer KDE currently, because

  • normal application tray and buttons for close, maximise and minimize
  • dolphin ! (But any capable filemanager with spacesaving UI, extensions, an editable location bar, drag/drop dialogs, selection mode, preview, pinned favourites, kfind integration,... would do)
  • spectacle
  • kate
  • systemsettings (keyboard shortcuts, theming, mouse speed, Graphic tablet, flatpak permissions, system info, ...)

are all simply better than the GNOME counterpart. Also things like the clickboxes of decorations actually reaching to the top corner is something so obvious its crazy that GNOME simply ignores that and you need to directly point to the "x".

I like that Gnome is untraditional though.

[–] M137@lemm.ee 11 points 1 year ago

As the first paragraph says: "The GNOME Foundation is thrilled to announce the GNOME project is receiving €1M from the Sovereign Tech Fund to modernize the platform, improve tooling and accessibility, and support features that are in the public interest."

Let's hope that means improving all that.

[–] ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 9 points 1 year ago

Gnome has the best accessibility tools for disabled people

It’s often glossed over

[–] milicent_bystandr@lemm.ee 8 points 1 year ago

I'm also on KDE at the moment, but I appreciate the money going into FOSS desktop experience. Most importantly as keeping things viable for the future. Also KDE and GNOME both, one presumes, learn from each others successes.

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[–] Shatur@lemmy.ml 17 points 1 year ago

Wow, 1M it's a lot! I wish we could have more organizations like this in more countries.

[–] jack@monero.town 15 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I'm very interested in the secrets storage. Hopefully that includes integrating programs with GNOME Secrets, especially firefox

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[–] makingStuffForFun@lemmy.ml 15 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Cool. Now how about image thumbnail in the file picker. I mean seriously...

[–] mfat 20 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Wasn't this fixed finally a while ago? I swear i read somewhere it was.

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[–] TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Already done like a couple of releases ago.

[–] MonkderZweite@feddit.ch 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Btw, why is filepicker a toolkit thing and not something the user can choose or switch out?

[–] d_k_bo@feddit.de 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

If the program uses xdg-desktop-portal, the file picker isn't provided by the toolkit but by your desktop / portal implementation.

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[–] warmaster@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (8 children)

I wonder if any of this will improve Wayland/mutter, I love GNOME's UI... but I had to move to KDE for a better gaming experience.

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[–] Vincent@kbin.social 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Great work by Sonny and Tobias. Really happy to hear that more effort will be invested into accessibility, as I feel it's really been lagging over the past couple of years.

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[–] Sentau@feddit.de 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

How are gnome supposed to improve hardware support? Do gnome devs write drivers and such at the present time¿?

[–] fossisfun@lemmy.ml 15 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Variable refresh rate (VRR), HDR, OLED (e. g. I'd like the panel to become grey and move items around a bit to lessen burn-in) all involve GNOME for hardware support.

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[–] InstallGentoo@lemmy.zip 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I wonder if this has anything to do with the shaman they recently hired

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