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
  • RoadArchie@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

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

    • TCB13@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

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

        • TheAnonymouseJoker@lemmy.ml
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          Meh. The design and all is very good, great even, but the performance is donkey. And no, telling people to turn off animations and compositor is not a valid solution, when other DEs keep the animations, especially GNOME.