I can’t find KDE’s financial report, but in a video I watched it was claimed that Thunderbird collected more donations than KDE. It seems quite hard to believe, but in 2022 Thunderbird collected more than 6,4 million dollars.

KDE is an entire desktop environment, with a bunch of applications and even partnerships that have yielded a KDE laptop. Should Thunderbird have been able to collect more money than KDE itself, there might be something that KDE can learn from Thunderbird.

Edit: Added the link to the video that I watched

  • Toes♀
    2•6 months ago

    Yeah that’s a fair point. I’m currently using kubuntu and enjoy it more than other distros I’ve tried. But I’ve never felt a strong desire to adopt all the tools. It took me a long while to realize that the themes store is more or less dead and theme authors expect you to install a 3rd party tool (Kvantum) to get the real theme. I wish they would make that more obvious, cause when you’re browsing themes in KDE none of that is obvious and you left wondering why it didn’t do much.

    • stevecrox
      1•6 months ago

      @Toes I have the real reason!

      I tried to donate and the recurring webpage won’t render in browser or desktop Firefox.

      Also it is in Euro’s with no information on what that is in your local currency.

      Lastly I haven’t heard of a single bank in the list of direct debit list.

      Basically I think they’ve made it too hard for UK/USA/RoW to donate.

      • @Bro666MA
        2•6 months ago

        Hi,

        Which website are you going to donate? Have you tried this or this?

        Let me know if you have any trouble and thanks for your support.

        • stevecrox
          1•6 months ago

          @Bro666 yes the issues is in the Donerbox element.

          It doesn’t resize on Firefox and there aren’t embedded scrollbars. So when you get to the 3rd screen you can’t progress

          Issue affects desktop and mobile versions of Firefox.