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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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[–] d_k_bo@feddit.de 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If the program uses xdg-desktop-portal, the file picker isn't provided by the toolkit but by your desktop / portal implementation.

[–] MonkderZweite@feddit.ch -2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah, i mean outside of that. General Gtk and Qt applications.

[–] fossisfun@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

Outside of that the toolkit's file picker is used, as the system doesn't seem to provide one (via the portal), so the only reasonable fallback is to show the file picker that you know is there, which is the one of the application's toolkit.