Post Syndicated from jzb original https://lwn.net/Articles/987715/

The KDE project plans to directly
ask for donations in the Plasma desktop starting with version
6.2. According to this
blog post by Nate Graham, users will see a
system notification once per year (in December) asking for a
donation to the non-profit KDE e.V.:

Now, I know that messages like this can be controversial! The
change was carefully considered, and we tried our best to minimize
the annoying-ness factor: It’s small and unobtrusive, and no matter
what you do with it (click any button, close it, etc) it’ll go away
until next year. It’s implemented as a KDE Daemon (KDED) module,
which allows users and distributors to permanently disable it if they
like.