Sovereign Tech Fund invests over €1 million in KDE software development
Posted by CarlSchwanKDE@reddit | linux | View on Reddit | 119 comments
Posted by CarlSchwanKDE@reddit | linux | View on Reddit | 119 comments
Bro666@reddit
FYI, the funds are earmarked for the following tasks:
Ratiocinor@reddit
I'd like to see them take accessibility seriously
It's the only thing GNOME still has over KDE
Still to this day you can't stop the text cursor from blinking in KDE plasma, you can in GNOME and GTK based DEs like Xfce by the way. And yes it is an accessibility feature, Windows also has it too if you were wondering
FrozenLogger@reddit
This doesn't work?
kwriteconfig6 --file kdeglobals --group KDE --key CursorBlinkRate 0
CrazyKilla15@reddit
Unless this is visible in the GUI settings(and i didnt find it there), how is anybody supposed to discover or know about this?
FrozenLogger@reddit
Same way you would find the gui? Kagi, DuckDuckGo, or whatever search engine you choose? Asking in forums?
I mean the way I wrote it is just a way to get kde to write to the config file, which you could do with a text editor. It is not "hacky" or even really obscure.
It never occurred to me in all my 20 years on Linux that anyone would ever NOT want a blinking cursor so it is a fairly obscure choice to make to me. Although to be fair, in searching for it I saw some people simply want to change the rate. I just knew it is part of QT so KDE should be able to config it.
In any case, now that people are aware, and it is possible, I don't see any reason why someone couldn't add it to the settings menu, and it looks like KDE might be heading in that direction since they are talking about it.
CrazyKilla15@reddit
..by using the built in search(it doesnt show up in there) or by simply exploring the settings. This isnt difficult?
If the only way to find a setting is to already know it exists and then search up how to manipulate it using non-standard hacks, it functionally does not exist.
Yes it absolutely is?? The normal standard way to configure anything KDE is through System Settings, not manually digging through obscure poorly documented command line tools or scattered configuration files? I dont know how you think otherwise.
In all my years of using KDE it has never occurred to me to search up if KDE has secret hidden settings they just dont expose in the normal place the expose settings for... uh, some reason. This is not something that would ever occur to most people, and its not something anyone should ever have to think of because why the hell would they have secret settings they dont tell you about in the place they normally tell you about settings?
I mean yes thats how accessibility usually works, people who dont need accessibility features never consider those who do or what they may need.
Well yes thats what the commenter who wanted KDE to take accessibility seriously wants them to do, take it seriously and properly expose key accessibility settings in the normal standard discoverable locations.
FrozenLogger@reddit
I get your point that a setting is ideal. The original poster said "no way to do this in kde", which is simply not true.
If the ableist version (which is what is default) is an issue, at least there is a remedy. And I will stick by that it is not "hacky" or obscure, any more than the accessibility change is obscure. Which is part of the problem. While the underlying platform (QT) has taken this into consideration and considers it worthwhile doing so it functionally is there, no one has simply added the button, which is something anyone could do, so who wants to step up and apply the change they seek?
If it interests you perhaps you would like to submit a pull request?
In the meantime, if you are aware that people need this, spread the knowledge that this is how you do it.
mishrashutosh@reddit
i agree that an exposed gui setting would be great, but this is not a "hacky workaround". it turns the inbuilt setting on via a command line instead of a checkbox. there is no workaround because the feature is built into plasma.
cwo__@reddit
Seems to work fine, even in Wayland. Will need to restart the application though.
The QStyle and the default QtWidgets style both seem to respect the setting. In principle it's possible that there are some custom components that should respect the setting, but don't - in that case, please report a bug.
FrozenLogger@reddit
Thank you.
I was confused when OP said that there was no current way in KDE to do this. I did see a report that wayland may have caused issues, but resolution probably would be around 6.8, hence why I was trying to justify maybe it not working for them.
Looks like ahead of schedule! KDE is awesome and constantly improving. This is all good news.
Nyuusankininryou@reddit
I wish Plasma phone and plasma TV was part of this.
Bro666@reddit
We'd probably need private investment for that. I don't see it as an area of interest for the public sector... Well, at least not for Bigscreen which is aimed at TVs. Pasma mobile for secure auditable phones maybe.
CrazyKilla15@reddit
The public sector buys and uses TVs and TV-based UIs too, though.
Bro666@reddit
Yes, but my guess they need more workstations than TVs. Prioritising stability and security for computers over TVs probably make more sense.
mishrashutosh@reddit
imo a chromium or firefox tab in kiosk mode running on top of a barebones window manager/desktop environment would suffice for most such use cases
k1ng0fh34rt5@reddit
I remember Plasma TVs, those were heavy, but incredible panels.
Nyuusankininryou@reddit
Ah sorry I mean Plasma bigscreen. XD
VayuAir@reddit
Excellent first steps, very relevant especially the QA part.
I hope the fund also finds UI/UX development in the next phase. Plasma needs it.
YouRock96@reddit
>I hope the fund also funds UI/UX development in the next phase. Plasma needs it.
The problem is that UX is now managed by individual developers of individual applications separately. Until KDE decides to hire at least a couple of designers who will do the systematization of all applications, this will not happen.
So far, what I see is that unfortunately, no one is trying to fix this problem.
froschdings@reddit
the Sovereign Tech Fund is mostly for backend, security, core technologies - they're also funding ffmpg, systemd, r implentations for arch pacman, also languages like Rust, Python, R, PHP, they support freebsd, eclipse, samba, drupal, mastodon - so lots of stuff that are benefitial for users indirectly, but not the fron-end apps themselves. But paying people to do the backend also frees up other donations to do front end stuff.
dbdr@reddit
For backend, you just care about background services, you don't need a desktop environment at all (which reduces the attack surface). If you care about KDE, you should care about UX as well.
CrazyKilla15@reddit
This one is very exciting. The necessity of 3rd party tools like konsave to backup/restore KDE settings has long been a major indictment on KDE.
I hope this includes fixing their horrendous config dir pollution because they think KDE software being under a KDE config directory will "confuse" gnome users who will wonder why they have KDE when they've installed KDE applications. Seriously thats the real reason they pollute the config directory, its come up across all the many bug reports, feature requests, and reddit posts for them to please be normal and use a subdirectory.
asm_lover@reddit
These are technical pain-points that plasma needed to deal with eventually so i'm very glad.
FeIipe678@reddit
Factory reset?
Liarus_@reddit
this is amazing, all of it would be useful for Many different users.
Nix users would enjoy the configuration part.
Network shares is a common pain point for new users
Factory reset is important for many users that have multiple years of updates stacked up and just want to start fresh with modern defaults
MyraidChickenSlayer@reddit
What will be done on the configuration part?
BinkReddit@reddit
Here's to hoping Kup gets native support for bup's ssh functionality! Easy off-site backups here we come!
Andr1yTheOne@reddit
Was hoping they would improve accessibility
Eigenspace@reddit
Its really cool seeing KDE make so much progress, and turn into such a big, powerful umbrella organization that helps so many smaller open source projects. They're a real jewel of the Open Souce ecosystem.
Liarus_@reddit
it helps a lot that it's managed by people that genuinely care, I've made a few bug reports early that had nothing to do with KDE, and they redirected me to the proper place rather than just tell me "nah, not our problem"
torar9@reddit
Gnome devs with their altitude towards users is killing the project.
No wonder KDE is becoming better alternative.
AfraidAsparagus6644@reddit
I think KDE has already been better for a long time. Even for those who like GNOME's layout, that can be replicated in KDE Plasma without even using extensions
Waryle@reddit
I come back every few months to try Plasma, and nope. It has overview now, but it's nowhere as polished as Gnome and I always end up coming back to Gnome after a few days
Former-Speaker-5511@reddit
I consider Gnome hostile towards users. It’s our way or the highway. Yes they “review” extensions but I’ve always felt they’re a weak attempt at placating upset users who don’t want the Gnome ideal of a desktop. They’re quite literally a security timebomb.
Kevin_Kofler@reddit
I wish they would use part of the funding to support the German XLibre instead of the US-American Wayland, consistently with the goals of the Sovereign Tech Fund.
froschdings@reddit
I don't think they applied...
Kevin_Kofler@reddit
I mean a reasonable way to use the funds for KDE would be to make KDE Plasma work (again and better) with a German/European windowing system.
d_ed@reddit
Based on our telemetry over 95% of plasma users of 6.6 are on Wayland.
Kevin_Kofler@reddit
Oh, also, all your statistics prove is that the people who are not smart enough to turn off the spyware use Wayland. Might be only those, you have no data for the people who do not accept being spied on.
Kevin_Kofler@reddit
Is that a surprise when you are pressuring distributions to default to Wayland and announcing that X11 support will be gone from upstream Plasma in a few months?
gmes78@reddit
If X11 was any good, desktop environments would've stuck to it. But everyone except the most stubborn of people saw that Wayland was a better route, so they worked hard to make it happen.
As a result, Wayland won, and there's no reason to invest time and effort into keeping X11 alive anymore. This is not the result of "pressure", or any other unfair moves (nor is it a way to steal power from the people developing X11, as they're the same people who made Wayland). It is the payoff of almost two decades of work.
froschdings@reddit
At least they are freeing up funds indirectly, but it should be billions instead of millions in funds…
Leseratte10@reddit
Great idea, funding a window system from 1984 everyone is migrating away from, rather than the modern open-source standard everyone is migrating to.
Might as well burn the money, that'll have about the same effect.
Kevin_Kofler@reddit
As for "where every application has access to everything" vs. "where there's proper isolation between applications / windows", that is what the Xnamespace extension XLibre is developing is for. Getting proper Xnamespace support into Plasma would be part of a funded project for proper XLibre support. (The tasks would be to 1. restore the dropped X11 support on the master branches and 2. add support for Xnamespace and other XLibre innovations, e.g., HDR is being worked on.)
TickTockPick@reddit
regs01@reddit
Wayland does have even 1/3 of X11 functionality and it's poorly designed. It's not better.
gmes78@reddit
Good. That's the point. The remaining two thirds are complete trash that should be thrown away.
That's a laughable thing to say. You probably haven't even written a single line of code in your life.
Leseratte10@reddit
Instead of that work, why not spend the money on a modern Wayland compositor?
Wayland is just a protocol definition that applications can implement. That's like saying hey let's migrate away from HTTP or TCP or DNS because they've been invented in another country ...
Kevin_Kofler@reddit
The goal of the STF is to be independent of US technologies and support German or European development instead, which, if taken seriously, would mean preferring XLibre to Wayland.
ric2b@reddit
I don't think open source is under the same concern in terms of independence, at all. You can fork it at any moment if necessary.
Kevin_Kofler@reddit
Which is exactly what XLibre did. Where is the European sovereign fork of Wayland and its libraries?
regs01@reddit
XLibre is a fork of XOrg that was hijacked, sabotaged and destroyed by a corpo making Wayland. It's what american corpos usually do with competitors - take over and destroy.
6e1a08c8047143c6869@reddit
Red Hat doesn't make Wayland though?
Kevin_Kofler@reddit
Yes, and that is exactly why Europe wants sovereign tech!
Thaurin@reddit
You cannot "fork Wayland and its libraries." But Wayland is already being implemented by many projects that are maintained in Europe. But I'm only repeating the other comments.
Leseratte10@reddit
No.
Wayland is just a protocol, it's not actually a software. Anyone can implement it. If taken seriously, they'd provide funding to european compositors implementing the Wayland protocol - like KWin which is part of KDE, so they're already doing what you suggest.
And I'm not sure being stuck on a technology for the 80s is "being independent of US technologies" ...
Kevin_Kofler@reddit
Funny how the Wayland cult manages to spin this broken design where every compositor has to reinvent the wheel as a good thing.
Yet, even if you implement the protocol yourself, you still end up depending on various FreeDesktop libraries controlled by US developers paid by US companies. KWin-Wayland also implements, instead of the technology-neutral
ext-image-copy-capture-v1extension protocol, the screen capture portal that drags in the whole Pipewire stack, on both the client and the server end!0riginal-Syn@reddit
XLibre will never be more than a niche. Not saying you have to like it or that it cannot have its place, but it will always be limited to niche status. It is not the future.
KnowZeroX@reddit
Wayland is a protocol, nothing more. So Kwin running on wayland is no less european.
C0rn3j@reddit
Let's perhaps not use the MAGA fork from someone who spouts psychotic drivel like this:
"And I know a lot of people who will never take part in this generic human experiment that basically creates a new humanoid race (people who generate and exhaust the toxic spike proteine, whose gene sequence doesn't look quote natural). I'm one of them, as my whole family."
Kevin_Kofler@reddit
Let's not use a "MAGA fork", but instead use software that the MAGA President can directly control because it is developed in his country, sounds like a great plan. /s LOL
6e1a08c8047143c6869@reddit
Wayland is not developed in the US, or even primarily by US-based companies.
C0rn3j@reddit
Author uses MAGA slogans, let's.
NotQuiteLoona@reddit
There are no nations in open-source. A program with no nation is as much sovereign as a program from own nation.
quilllord@reddit
i think there was vitriol thrown on onlyoffice even before the entire eurooffice fiasco for being russian yeah?
NotQuiteLoona@reddit
OnlyOffice is open core - it has binary blobs, only the main part is open source. At least that's what Collabora Office page says, https://www.collaboraonline.com/comparing-collabora-with-onlyoffice/#Open_source, but I think there is no sense for them to lie, and it's very verifiable by anyone.
The concerns were about closed source blobs in the first place, Russia was mentioned because Russian government maintains very close relationships with oligarchs, and OnlyOffice is owned by multiple proxies of them. Now concerns are also about license situation, but you already know that.
regs01@reddit
That's just not true. It's entirely open source and licensed under AGPL with some exception related to naming and logo - like you have to stay within branding, while making changes.
Another false. R7 is entirely private business. Ascenio is not exist through multiple proxies. It was there from the beginning for international operation due to Russia's very strict legislation.
NotQuiteLoona@reddit
One of the main points of Euro-Office is clearing binary blobs.
I'm sorry, but there are no exceptions in licenses. Either it is AGPL or it is not. Every modification means creating a new license.
As it was already said,
LICENSE.txtis not considered enough to be licensed. License should be specifically denoted in theREADME.md. TheREADME.mdclearly says that the product is released under GNU Affero Public License, version 3.0. Link to their own website has zero meaning in the first place, as the license is already declared.Declaring one license and then linking another license with another terms is not just unfair, it also has zero legal meaning. You said first that it's GNU Affero Public License, version 3.0, that's it, even if you linked a random website saying completely different license - because the main source is your repository, and you said yourself.
As Nextcloud article said,
Free Software Foundation themselves confirmed that it's contradicting with itself.
However, section 7 of the license predicted exactly that, and allows recipient to remove this restriction.
You can read more there: https://nextcloud.com/blog/euro-office-license-compliance-and-what-open-source-means/
It's a position that was confirmed by FSF.
I'll skip it. Defending this debate isn't my job in the first place - you can argue with someone who still wants. I'll just recommend to research the situation more.
regs01@reddit
If you put it that way you can say that X11 is just a protocol.
torar9@reddit
Why people insist on using X11? Wayland session has been usable for many years. It also offers more functionality.
Kevin_Kofler@reddit
But it does not offer some functionality that X11 does offer.
torar9@reddit
What kind of functionality for a desktop user that would be? I would say that the ability to have VRR, per monitor refresh rate and scaling is something that wayland has and x11 does not.
Kevin_Kofler@reddit
For example, the full flexibility of XRandR, allowing, e.g., arbitrary X-server-side scaling, even with stretched scaling ratios (horizontal ratio ≠ vertical ratio), without the applications or the window manager even realizing that they are being scaled (unlike the standard pixel-perfect scaling where applications have to be aware of it and where only a single ratio in all directions is normally possible).
C0rn3j@reddit
By that logic, let's use Wayland, as X11 lacks over Wayland than Wayland over X11.
Eigenspace@reddit
MIT licensed American software is fine. Your complaint is like saying we should develop an alternative to the wheel because it comes from Mesopotamia.
Let's focus on replacing the things that are actually urgent to replace, rather than wasting time replacing MIT licensed software.
IcyHeadTime@reddit
He’s just xenophobic
Kevin_Kofler@reddit
I am against xenophobia, which is one of several reasons why I am against the current US government and do not trust the USA at all at least as long as the current President is in office.
Waryle@reddit
Members of the X11 cult are a strange breed. And Wayland is under MIT license, it's not more tied to the US than XLibre.
ahjolinna@reddit
There are always these people, most of them are boomers.
its not the first time these weird cult forks have happened and it wont be the last
IcyHeadTime@reddit
He says on an American site lol
Flashy_Pollution_996@reddit
Damn I was about to donate €20… I guess I’ll just buy maccy
Eigenspace@reddit
You inspired me, I've matched your 50€.
KnowZeroX@reddit
Remember, KDE is not just Plasma, it is an envelope for almost a thousand software projects. That money is hardly enough.
Not to mention, this mentality of "a company/government is donating so I don't have to" isn't a good one and can kill open source.
Take for example Krita, when they got donations from Intel, many stopped donating because they thought it wasn't necessary anymore. Then Intel ended their donations because it was suppose to be a 1 year only thing. But the people donations never came back.
If you find a product useful, then donate.
Bro666@reddit
This investment (not donation) is painstakingly earmarked for very specific tasks relating to security and stability in Plasma, KDE Linux and groupware frameworks. It will not help apps, features, or anything else.
Think of it like this: users will get 1m worth of improvements for stuff you largely do not see and don't notice until it fails. So, in theory, the money will make it even more invisible.
All the stuff you get excited about? New features, fancy apps, etc... That will still need users' donations.
Eigenspace@reddit
Your donations are still welcome and needed. KDE having multiple independent funding stream helps ensure stability and gives them more ability to say no to demands from big potential funders who might try and leverage money to influence KDE's direction.
DistinctTie6771@reddit
Great news! This will make life easier for developers and users alike.
teressapanic@reddit
And how this fund will get the return on investment here?
Schlaefer@reddit
Here you go: https://www.sovereign.tech/programs/fund
teressapanic@reddit
Ah so it’s publicly funded
zeruch@reddit
Sovereign funds by definition, are government run.
Schlaefer@reddit
Yes, it isn't private capital with a direct ROI mindset, but a public entity realizing that a lot of important software isn't properly funded by the private market - or even donation, which usually have an incentive to target "sexy" things like features, instead of "boring" stuff like "backend infrastructure".
iBoMbY@reddit
Good for KDE, if they remain in full control, because the German government is again attempting to pass unconstitutional mass surveillance laws, and is in bed with Trump, and Palantier, and a lot more.
Mr_Lumbergh@reddit
I like this, but do hope there aren’t any policy strings attached given that this is a government initiative.
Over-Tax403@reddit
Of course there are strings attached, otherwise they wouldn't give money. If not today then tomorrow.
Avasterable@reddit
The STF is probably one of the most sensible things the german government has done in the past 30 years, their track record has been great so far
froschdings@reddit
https://www.sovereign.tech/programs/fund#module-criteria
Well there strings, but I don't think this is necessarily bad. The stf funds security, stability, reusability and it's focus is on backend stuff, infrastructur, programming languages, system components etc. It's not even donations but service contracts afaik.
Lawnmover_Man@reddit
I do hope as well, but at this point, it's quite the limited and shallow hope. I'm not going to pretend like the current government structures are actually trying to do good for the people.
rafaelhlima@reddit
It's amazing how much open source projects can accomplish with so little money. For KDE this may be life-changing money, but for Microsoft, Apple, Google this is less than coffee money.
This goes to show that investing in open source is cheap and efficient.
Congratulations to the KDE team! I'm proud of using their software.
Bro666@reddit
We realise it is not. We have so much going on. But we will use it more efficiently than any of the companies you have mentioned and we will deliver improvements worth €1m to users.
qwesx@reddit
I like how that a good part of the article's list of "areas to improve" essentially boils down to "we want Active Directory working without hassle on Linux, but also not be stuck on fucking Active Directory".
Nothing wrong about that, quite the contrary - and also quite expected for a government fund to put money into such a mechanism - but I still find it amusing.
zeno0771@reddit
Here's the question no one thus far is asking: Why would a desktop environment be responsible for how/if a Linux distribution interacts with an AD environment? Of note--and maybe this is just lingering paranoia from living in the States--I see the article refers to "KDE Linux" as if it's a standalone distribution. Beyond a display manager allowing network logins (and there are still a number that do not, or at least not easily), I don't see how KDE can make any functional changes in that respect.
Anyway, AD and Linux is almost entirely a solved problem, as long as you accept the fact that there cannot be a 1:1 AD implementation in Linux simply because of the way a Linux OS is put together at ground-level.
FreeIPA does almost everything AD does, and what it doesn't do can't be done: A majority of AD concepts pertain to principals and elements that are exclusive to Windows--and depend more on Group Policy than AD itself--therefore there's no analog for them in Linux and no reason to implement them. UIDs/GIDs can be mapped 1:1 between AD and FreeIPA; it's currently a kludgy process but again, that's more a fault in AD (and anyway, you can script it in Ansible and be done with it). Further, 2-way trusts between AD and FreeIPA domains are now possible.
You could admin an entire mixed MS/Linux environment with just FreeIPA, but you'll lose a lot of Windows-specific controls. You could regain a lot of that with Ansible and local Group Policy but that's no sane person's idea of scalable and, if you're already investing that many hours into it, you'd probably be better off/money ahead just running an on-prem AD instance anyway. I have yet to meet a sysadmin who would advocate running a mixed environment without at least one AD server; it's not worth the man-hours required to keep all the chainsaws running. If you're, say, pushing Linux desktops almost exclusively which are authenticating to Linux servers and have maybe one or two Windows boxes for unavoidable 3rd-party-software scenarios, then yes, the case could be made for managing the environment with FreeIPA exclusively. Any more than that and it's (probably) not worth the effort.
Die4Ever@reddit
well KDE makes a lot more software than just Plasma, they also make kde-login-manager, Kdenlive, Kate, etc
161 results on Flathub: https://flathub.org/en/apps/collection/developer/KDE/1
cwo__@reddit
It is: https://kde.org/linux/
(well, "standalone" as it's built on another distribution, but it's very much intended to be its own thing)
KwyjiboTheGringo@reddit
I love it. KDE is a fantastic project, and Plasma is my preferred DE when I want to use an actual DE, and not just a tiling WM.
AdHeavy2829@reddit
These are all useful features for enterprise adoption which is crucial for genuine impact on the market. Very happy to see this
shiningaeon@reddit
Remember that episode of Mr. Robot that came out a decade ago,around the time KDE was reinventing itself with the first version of Plasma? The episode where the antagonist says he uses KDE even though gnome is supposed to be better because he can't kick his old habits.
Man. Have times changed.
pestaa@reddit
This is fantastic news. I can't help but feel this is somewhat related to the decline of EU-US relations, and the German government sponsoring sovereign technologies in response. I'd like to imagine where the project would be if this money, or even half of this money, was invested in KDE a decade ago.
In any case, the aim is to help operationalize both the development and running of KDE and related apps, which will improve the experience not just for wide-scale public sector deployments, but for individual users too.
kcat__@reddit
Seems like, from the article, it's going to be used primarily for infra and things of that nature rather than development of the DE itself.
froschdings@reddit
Even if it's mainly for increasing security and background stuff etc. this still will free up other funds/donations for other projects.
_Redditor_tiktoker@reddit
But that would still be very useful for KDE in hindsight right?
Eigenspace@reddit
Yes, this is all super important stuff.
torar9@reddit
The Photonic article says it's also going to features.
For me the most important feature is "Improving KDE Plasma’s Recoverability Mechanisms"
https://www.phoronix.com/news/KDE-1M-EUR-Investment
quilllord@reddit
how tf am i supposed to compete with this with my measly 30 usd lmao
CarlSchwanKDE@reddit (OP)
This money is dedicated to some specific part of KDE development, we are still extremely thankful about your donation as it ensure the good working of the rest of the organization (paying CI and our servers, paying promo contractors, some other development package, developer sprints, akademy, ...)
Bro666@reddit
KDE appreciates your $30 no end.
STF's investment can only be used for very concrete framework and back end-related stuff, i.e. the stuff you don't usually see. Everything else—apps, UI, features, etc. is out of scope and still requires funding with donations.
Eigenspace@reddit
They'd still love to have your $30 USD, and it will be well used.
RoomyRoots@reddit
A project that well deserves it.
throwaway490215@reddit
This is awesome. U believe what also needs to happen is to spend a a €1 million on simple corporate outreach & marketing campaigns in Europe.
We've reached the point that small/medium businesses of ~50 people should be choosing Linux / KDE instead of windows. It lets them have more control over costs, provides sovereignty, and it being much much much nicer to use than the corporate bloat that is windows.
Even backup recovery after a business gets ransomwared is easier with linux than windows in my opinion.
Getting the first few hundred or thousand corporate users to switch is more of an obstacle than anything else at this point.
Artichoke808@reddit
Well deserved. KDE really delivers massively on continuous improvement in relation to the amount of funding they receive.