The handy GNOME extension Dash to Panel will live on, under its present maintainer, after winning financial backing from one of the distros that uses it.
The popular extension for the GNOME desktop has a new sponsor: the team behind Zorin OS has stepped up to fund continued development by the current project lead, Charles Gagnon.
A couple of weeks ago we reported on the negative reactions that Gagnon received when he added a donations button to his taskbar. Since then, Artyom Zorin, co-maintainer of the Zorin OS distro, left this comment:
We last looked at Zorin OS a year ago (and as it happens, The Reg FOSS desk is working on a new story on it right now). It’s based on Ubuntu, but via a collection of extensions it extensively modifies the GNOME desktop for a more Windows-like experience. As we said last time, Artyom Zorin uploaded the original Dash-to-Panel extension, which was forked from Dash to Dock.
Artyom told The Register:
We also asked Charles Gagnon about this change:
Artyom mentioned that they pretty much use Dash to Panel as is now in ZorinOS, so that was very nice of him to reach out and give his support.
He continued:
It’s easy to forget that behind even quite high-profile FOSS projects, there are real people – often, surprisingly few of them – and like anyone, they are hurt when strangers attack their work. It’s good to know that this argument is settled for now. Gagnon confirmed to us that he will keep working on the extension, “kee