Why do we ask for donations so often? Because it’s important! As KDE becomes more successful and an increasing number of people use our software, our costs grow as well: Web and server hostin…
  • dinckel@lemmy.world
    634·
    3 months ago

    A lot of people here have such a bizarre stance.

    People have put work into this, for free. And the moment they ask for support, you immediately bring the pitchforks out, over a singular pop-up you can permanently disable? That’s just plain disrespectful, at the very least

    • TurboWafflz@lemmy.world
      1·
      3 months ago

      The one change I would make would be adding a “never” button to the notification so you don’t have to disable it in the settings if you don’t want it

      Or actually “Don’t show again” would probably be better phrasing

  • MyNameIsRichard@lemmy.ml
    26·
    3 months ago

    I do suspect a small but vocal crowd of people will spread doom and gloom about it on social media anyway, of course.

    I see they’re here already

  • Elsie@lemmy.ml
    21·
    3 months ago

    As long as the “No Thanks” button is a one and done go-away button, I think this is a decent idea!

  • Mactan@lemmy.ml
    91·
    3 months ago

    cool and good. thunderbird is also very good about this and more projects should present their donation stuff just as tastefully

  • antihumanitarian@lemmy.worldEnglish
    71·
    3 months ago

    FOSS in general needs better means of financial support. While the software is free and libre, developer time is not, and ultimately they gotta eat and pay bills. I hope they get positive results and don’t catch much unnecessary flak.

  • conciselyverbose@sh.itjust.works
    49·
    3 months ago

    It’s implemented as a KDE Daemon (KDED) module, which allows users and distributors to permanently disable it if they like.

    Eh. I guess good enough.

    But I’m still opposed on principle.