JoshStrobl Just joined your patreon - love what you do. After years shying away from the desktop, I'm increasingly a desktop type of guy - anti unity or anti where Mac appears to be headed. Over the last few years I'm investing more in my desktop and home office environment. It is so much more relaxing. Given what you've done with Budgie, can't wait to see what you put together.
Pursuing Open Source Full-Time Development
So happy to support you.
I'll support you !
JoshStrobl
Is this
File management via a new graphical file manager, with features such as multi-pane, batch file management, file and folder tagging, and more.
what I think it is, a polite way to say "It's time for Nautilus to die screaming" ?
Because I'll happily pay for that (and in the meantime, I'm happily paying for everything else in the list).
CorvusRuber what I think it is, a polite way to say "It's time for Nautilus to die screaming" ?
Yes. A million times yes 
Thank you to everyone that has signed up for the Patreon. Every dollar, euro, etc. helps and all your generosity knows no bounds.
I appreciate your stance on desktop software, and I've been thinking about music software a lot recently (all the programs I've tried have been lacking) so I'm happy to chip in!
That's really nice. But I'm a little surprised that you would work full time for just 800€. Isn't Norway pretty expensive?
CorvusRuber ^^^ (every word you said!) 
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kaktuspalme Josh lives in Finland, not Norway.
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kaktuspalme But I'm a little surprised that you would work full time for just 800€.
After taxes and YEL (self-employed persons) insurance it's a fair bit less than what I'd probably need, but I'd rather make less but work on open source software, with contributions coming from Patrons, than not being able to work full-time on open source. Plus I'm married and the wife is quite supportive of my move to working on open source (and more on Solus) full-time when funding allows.
Will I be happy if we get over the 800€ mark? Heck yea. But I wanted to set some realistic goals first.
I imagine I'll be working closer to full-time even before we hit that mark (I want to show Patrons and potential Patrons that I mean business when it comes to delivering code), but I need to finish up some old contract work before I can do that
JoshStrobl On top of that, if we want to keep Solus being updated and have the features we would like to see, sponsoring you for working on it full time is the best way we could
7 days later
Just pushed a refresh of my personal site and the first Dev Diary for Koto, an in-development audio manager, to my site 
If you are a Patron, you already read this content piece exclusively last week. More coming for Patrons hopefully this week 
https://joshuastrobl.com/2021/01/25/dev-diary-1-koto-foundations/
Is it easy for you to check to see whether someone's Patreon application has been processed? I signed up a while ago, as WetGeek, and have not seen anything to indicate that I'm a patron. As far as I can tell, there's been no charge against my credit card.
Does this initial process just take a while? If so, I can certainly be patient, but if something went wrong, I want to try signing up again.
WetGeek It should be instant and I have it set up to charge up-front (back when Solus had a Patreon, we had issues with people signing up, checking things, then cancelling before the payment period, so I charge upfront to avoid that). I checked and I'm not seeing it as declined, cancelled, or active (assuming you used the same email as the one associated with your forum account), so maybe the request didn't go through?
Thanks for checking. I'll try signing up again. I'm assuming that will cause some kind of an error if my user name is already present.
It's possible that I set it up originally using PayPal. This time I was dressed (vs. in my robe), so I had my wallet handy, and used a credit card instead. It appeared to have worked.
WetGeek Glad to hear that it worked! Thank you for your support 
Yeah, got an email confirmation. Cheers!
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What is the history of the name? Why "Koto"?
Is this an early prototype or working alpha?
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Solarmass What is the history of the name? Why "Koto"?
Copy / pasting from an answer I gave to a Patron 
Koto is the name of a "Japanese half-tube zither instrument" - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koto_(instrument)
I got hooked on the Koto after watching
Is this an early prototype or working alpha?
Neither. It's a mockup. Way too early for functional prototypes. Removed image reference though. Want folks to at the very least click on my blog post and read it
