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[-] TheImpressiveX@lemmy.ml 79 points 1 year ago

Now this is much better than getting ads in your Start Menu.

https://kde.org/donate/

[-] Plasma@lemmy.ml 45 points 1 year ago

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

It's once per year, easily dismissed, and can be permanently disabled. Seems entirely reasonable for a piece of free software that someone would use everyday

[-] MyNameIsRichard@lemmy.ml 42 points 1 year 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

[-] lemmydividebyzero@reddthat.com 40 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

No problem... Once a year is fine. It's a non-profit based in Germany...

Thunderbird shows it once at every startup...

[-] communism@lemmy.ml 10 points 1 year ago

Thunderbird shows it for a at every startup

Honestly didn't realise till you pointed that out. I'm so used to seeing it that it doesn't register to me what it's saying anymore. Probably for the best that KDE only does it once a year; if it were daily I'm sure it wouldn't even register to people that it's asking for donations.

[-] UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.ml 10 points 1 year ago

WinRaR has begged me for money for years

[-] ProgrammingSocks@pawb.social 15 points 1 year ago

Why use winrar when 7zip and peazip are right there?

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[-] k_rol@lemmy.ca 22 points 1 year ago

I personally think once a year is not enough. Every 6 months might be better. Also people already spend a lot during December that they might not prioritize donating to KDE.

For those complaining.... Well I don't know what to say to them. Such a big complex software which is 100% free should be allowed to remind us that they need money.

Don't forget they said it's running as a daemon specifically so you can easily disable it if it triggers you so much.

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[-] hornedfiend@sopuli.xyz 19 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I didn't get that notification yet,but when I do,l'll be sure as shit to donate as large amount as I can afford.

Edit: I know I can and have donated already,but just to highlight the idea

[-] savvywolf@pawb.social 18 points 1 year ago

I mean, at least I'm not paying $200* for the privilege of being advertised to... I'd like an option to disable it permanently in the popup but it seems mostly reasonable?

^* This is the first price I got for a Windows licence when I searched for it. I know you can probably get them cheaper, but that's the price they're advertising, so eh.^

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[-] antihumanitarian@lemmy.world 17 points 1 year 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.

[-] mactan@lemmy.ml 11 points 1 year ago

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

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