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Is it true that Thunderbird collected more donations than KDE?
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I would expect thunderbird to have more users.
It's quite a popular alternative to outlook in the business world. I've set it up at several offices and I've seen it in the wild at hospitals.
That would explain part of it. The video I watched said something about a viral crowd-funding campaign and a very active social media team.
Are KDE apps linux only?
They have KDE connect and some other tools but I'm not aware of how popular they are even for Linux users. A lot of it is duplication of other already popular tools available. And their bittorrent client sucks in my humble opinion.
I would expect for most users KDE is just another window manager for Linux. Secondly it's not even the most popular. So I would expect its user numbers to be much smaller.
@Toes @parens KDE has similar market share as Gnome and thats despite Gnome being the default.
I suspect it's because Thunderbird appeals to the GNU crowd being GPLv2 and written in C. They are quite loud and active.
I think most people who use KDE aren't as vocal or ardent in their free software beliefs
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.
@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.
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.
@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.
That is strange. It is resizing for me depending on the payment option I choose, showing all the info without the need of scrolling. I am using the desktop version of Firefox.
Can you try one of these for me?:
https://donorbox.org/kde-become-a-member
https://donorbox.org/kde-community
@Bro666 That links works, but running the latest Firefox on Debian bookworm, MacOS and Andriod I get the following: