Looks like the donation notification is working.
Looks like the donation notification is working.
Incredible, the last two months absolutely crushed on the first day of December and all it took was a single desktop notification. This is just the paypal donations as well. You can take a look at the data for yourself here.
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first thunderbird, now kde. looks like this will become standard practice for free software, which is a good thing. people take for granted the amount of work that goes into tools that help them daily, but i believe that it's mostly because they think whoever is making the software is fine without their help. this is basically saying "hey! actually, your support would be very helpful to us!", which is enough to make people want to help
I think the way this should be done is that there should be a service that you pay a fixed amount to monthly, and it tracks how long you use each open source software that month, and splits your money between each of those (and their subprojects) accordingly. Donation credentials could be scraped off Github: tons of repos have a 'buy me a coffee' button iirc.
Edit: actually I feel quite tempted to program this now. Just don't know how to handle the legal liability of being paid money and trusted to redistribute it.
There are some projects that are incredibly useful only for a short amount of time. That could throw it off a bit.
Even just the tracking would be helpful. Track what you use and then a notification each month where you put in how much you want to donate, it tells you how much should go to each thing, and then gives you links to their donate page. I'd love to see my split, even if just to adjust my monthly donations or to see if I'm missing any.
However, a significant number of the services I use are self-hosted websites. Tracking that may be a bit tricky.
I'd rather not get tracked at all.
This is not a suggestion to have KDE track users, it's a proposal to build software you could optionally use to help you assign donations to services you use. I would expect the data to be local, and if you don't want to be tracked then you wouldn't install it.
Well yeah, I get the sentiment, but it would be one vulnerability away from sharing my tracked information to malicious actors. Would also probably need elevated permissions to be able to do its job.
Not worth the risk in my opinion. Same as I don't want kernel level anticheats and yada yada.
I recently looked into that because I was searching for a time tracking software that logs the active window title. Unfortunately it seems like this is currently not easily implementable when using Wayland. I found a protocol that looked promising but sadly it isn't implemented by kwin.
Dw I'm literally coding it as we speak