[kde-community] Fundraising

[Boudewijn Rempt]

On Friday 11 July 2014 Jul 09:32:08 Martin Gräßlin wrote:
 
> Otherwise I'm all for it. Personally I'd like to see us ship a default 
> plasmoid in 5.1 which shows donation information.

That's a really good idea -- I don't think it would be too pushy or anything. Have it by default on the desktop, with a nice don't show again button.

> From KWin perspective one 
> could add a donate entry to the "user actions" (Alt+F3) menu. That would be 
> well enough hidden to not annoy and on the same time be present in each window 
> (even not KDE windows, evil, evil). From KWin perspective I also need to point 
> out that adding a donate button to the splash screen doesn't work as KWin 
> hides splash screens when they are clicked.

For Krita, I solved that by following the lead of blender, and converting the splash into a real window when the application has loaded. I do see returns in terms of donations after adding that splash. It won't work for every application, though.

As for the about box... I don't think that would be very effective. Most people don't check it. A donate now link in the help menu might work better. Even better, though, would be a support KDE button in the toolbar, maybe in the right-most position.


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Boudewijn Rempt
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