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
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
If people want to use Windows then they should just use Windows. If people don't want to use GNOME, then they should use something else.
Linux and GNOME aren't a Windows or MacOS clone, they have their own rich history of design decisions.
I get it, when I first tried to switch the Linux filesystem was alienating to me, it was part of why I switched back to Windows over and over again. But the thing is, here the problem lies with user: If I had kept a reflexive, closed-minded way of thinking, I would have never been able to switch to Linux at all. Only by allowing myself to take on different perspectives about design was I able to get comfortable with this software.
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.
I wonder if there's a way they could neatly implement them without cluttering the desktop. Like what if they were somewhere in the overview or something?
I really like Gnome but requiring extensions to work properly is bad design imo.
For example my moms laptop runs Gnome and she doesn't need much except 3 basic features: a dock, desktop & tray icons. Tray icons are necessary because Nextcloud relies on them to show the sync status, desktop icons are great to have temporary files easily accessible for a presentation.
In my opinion the most frustrating decision of Gnime is to not allow making the "dash" permanently visible, in other words, a dock. I'd argue it's even an accessibility option because it's easier to click on something visible than having to open the overview.
It's frustrating since Gnome is an almost perfect desktop for anyone who wants a simple, working desktop.
I use Gnome without extensions, it's great. IMO Microsoft didn't invent the perfect UX paradigm back in the early 90s. People use a task bar and start menu because they're used to it, not because it's better IMO.
I'm glad Gnome had the balls to do away with tradition and go with something different. It's led to a much better workflow IMO.
Gnome is great for people who like the opinionated workflow. Sadly that is not most people, at least I know of 5 people who tried Gnome and 4 came to the conclusion that the lack of a taskbar/launcher/dock makes it unsuitable for their desktop usage.
If Gnome had an optional dock, they might've actually used it and found out how great Gnome is. Maybe at some point they'd even disable the dock and return to the blessed workflow.
For the 1000th time, those extensions aren't even close to what something really native would offer. They fail in some circumstances like drag and drop to certain plains and behave inconsistently.
GNOME Extensions actually run in the gnome-shell process itself and can do most things that a builtin solution could offer.
They fail in some circumstances […] and behave inconsistently
That proves why they shouldn't be part of GNOME Shell themselves. Offloading some (debatable) functionality to extensions helps keeping the core components reliable and maintainable.