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!
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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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Sovereignty from whom though??
Turns out, the Germans.
Seems like a cool initiative
yes, we are quite good at funding foss
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Congrats GNOME!
Does anyone know if homedir encryption will utilize systemd-homed?
That’s the plan.
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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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!
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.
Great News!
Will we finally get properly working system tray? Man can dream...
They've been trying to make a cross-desktop standard for a little while now, but progress is certainly slow :/
Wow, 1M it's a lot! I wish we could have more organizations like this in more countries.
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.
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.
Gnome has the best accessibility tools for disabled people
It’s often glossed over
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.
Windows XP's grip ever tightens well past its death
Good design is good design.
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I'm very interested in the secrets storage. Hopefully that includes integrating programs with GNOME Secrets, especially firefox
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Cool. Now how about image thumbnail in the file picker. I mean seriously...
Wasn't this fixed finally a while ago? I swear i read somewhere it was.
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Already done like a couple of releases ago.
Btw, why is filepicker a toolkit thing and not something the user can choose or switch out?
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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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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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.
Accesibilty is also key for automated end-to-end tests, too.
I wonder if this has anything to do with the shaman they recently hired
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How are gnome supposed to improve hardware support? Do gnome devs write drivers and such at the present time¿?
I hope they also look at Linux Mint and the Cinnamon desktop. It's massively popular and that team work very hard. I'm sure they could use that support to help them focus on improving Cinnamon, the toolkit, accessibility etc.
Happy for Gnome though, they are a long standing project and used by many distro's. I have used Gnome in the past and it's decent, although a little heavy on RAM.
Would be great to see Debian also get this, being one of the oldest Linux distro's and the basis for Ubuntu, which in turn has spawned many distros.
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