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
  • warmaster@lemmy.world
    111·
    1 year ago

    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.

    • AProfessional@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      I don’t think that’s the focus. I know you won’t like this, but the Shell is already in a good place.

      HDR is in progress. VRR does have patches In progress.

      • warmaster@lemmy.world
        3·
        1 year ago

        If I use GNOME I get the most beautiful desktop UI, if I use Plasma I get a better gaming experience. I wish I could have both.

      • Sentau@feddit.de
        31·
        1 year ago

        VRR does have patches In progress.

        This has been the case for years at this point

        • AProfessional@lemmy.worldEnglish
          4·
          1 year ago

          The gap between “nothing has been done for this task” and “multiple developers have written, reviewed, and discussed patches for this” is immense and positive.

          • Sentau@feddit.de
            1·
            1 year ago

            These discussions took place several years ago if I remember correctly. The problem seems to be that cursor seems to want to refresh at a different rate than the content in screen and the people at gnome want the cursor to not feel choppy by being refreshed at the vrr determined refresh rate

            • AProfessional@lemmy.worldEnglish
              2·
              1 year ago

              The MR has multiple commits about 4 months old. It’s a bummer it’s moving slow but I believe it will land someday. I hope at least.

              • Sentau@feddit.de
                2·
                1 year ago

                I am also sure that it will land as well. As a gnome user I hope it lands sooner than later. I am just frustrated because the pursuit of perfection is keeping us from having a better experience now. It’s the calculator on iPad situation. Just because the perfect solution has not been found yet does not mean there should be no implemented solution at all.