Huge congrats on everyone who got this working. €1M will really go a long way and GNOME absolutely deserves it!

Expand and broaden freedesktop APIs

I am very excite

• KDE fanboi

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!

Congrats GNOME!

Does anyone know if homedir encryption will utilize systemd-homed?

Sovereignty from whom though??

Turns out, the Germans.

Seems like a cool initiative

Great News!

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.

Will we finally get properly working system tray? Man can dream...

Wow, 1M it's a lot! I wish we could have more organizations like this in more countries.

Cool. Now how about image thumbnail in the file picker. I mean seriously...

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.

I'm very interested in the secrets storage. Hopefully that includes integrating programs with GNOME Secrets, especially firefox

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.

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.

I wonder if this has anything to do with the shaman they recently hired

How are gnome supposed to improve hardware support? Do gnome devs write drivers and such at the present time¿?

I hope they'll ever fix the backspace issue for the on screen keyboard.