Graham: Asking for donations in Plasma
The KDE project plans to directlyask for donations in the Plasma desktop starting with version6.2. According to thisblog post by Nate Graham, users will see asystem notification once per year (in December) asking for adonation to the non-profit KDEe.V.:
Now, I know that messages like this can be controversial! Thechange was carefully considered, and we tried our best to minimizethe annoying-ness factor: It's small and unobtrusive, and no matterwhat you do with it (click any button, close it, etc) it'll go awayuntil next year. It's implemented as a KDE Daemon (KDED) module,which allows users and distributors to permanently disable it if theylike.