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Asking for donations in KDE Plasma (pointieststick.com)

submitted 2 weeks ago by [email protected] to c/linux

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

We are talking about one single notification per year that serves as a notification for the hundreds of KDE programs that you normally install on a Plasma desktop.

So, yeah, it's pretty fair. And it's free software, so you can fork it and delete those lines of code anyway. It's KDE so they'll probably even let you disable it at some point in the settings.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

How many packages make up what one would consider a bog-standard install of an OS that had all the basic features available to you?

300? 400? Enough for 1 popup every single day of the year; even if done yearly.

Thankfully, other developers aren't this rude or full of themselves. Don't get me wrong, they need funding, and I'm a donor - but advertising anything on the OS should be considered taboo. Just because Windows users tolerate it, doesn't mean we should.