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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
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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Just think how many times they broke extensions without any regard for the individuals using it.

You have no idea what you're talking about.
It's the job of the Gnome developers to update and improve Gnome.
It's the job of the extension developers to update their extensions when there's a new Gnome version.
And it's the job of your distro's maintainers to keep the versions of Gnome and the extensions in the repo compatible.
If you install Gnome from your distro's repo and extensions from Gnome's website, YOU take on this job.

Just install your extensions from your distro's repo and you won't have any issues.