GNOME Recognized as Public Interest Infrastructure – The GNOME Foundation
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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
  • Pantherina@feddit.de
    269·
    8 months ago

    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
      121·
      8 months 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
      101·
      8 months ago

      Gnome has the best accessibility tools for disabled people

      It’s often glossed over

    • milicent_bystandr@lemm.ee
      8·
      8 months 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.

      • Pantherina@feddit.de
        2·
        8 months ago

        Did the windows before not have regular menu with all that? I think its an okay concept, even though I can imagine something like workspaces could make sense too.