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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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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

Great news! Maybe now they'll spare a day of work to get desktop icons going again. No more funding excuses for the fanboys now.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Why would you want desktop icons? I mean I get it, there were quite popular back in the day, but I don’t see how a big junky place of a desktop has any benefit

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Shooting yourself in the foot to dab on the people trying to convert to linux

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Also forcing people to go KDE to be again disappointed because their design is bad.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

KDE is awesome

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