[shevy-java]

Funding is nice, though ... why so much into KDE? Not other projects?

I think KDE was better in the past. With its "wayland-only" future it will leave behind several linux users.

> I also think it's worth reflecting on just how much stuff KDE gets done with so little money. I dropped them 50€ yesterday, and would encourage people to do the same

So the donation daemon worked. Though, if they now have so much money, why would you recommend more money to KDE and not other projects? Why not xserver https://github.com/X11Libre/xserver or gtk2-ng https://git.devuan.org/Daemonratte/gtk2-ng? Granted, these have fewer users, but there should be more diversity among those receiving funding.

I also donate a small part of my monthly income, but I don't feel a need to say where to or nudge others to do the same. It would not make any difference to me personally if Joe donates to abc or xyz.

[unethical_ban]

I don't think there is as much utility in funding projects designed to keep past protocols alive, rather than funding those that have many millions of users.

[aruggirello]

> With its "wayland-only" future it will leave behind several linux users.

This is so sad. Something like this already happened two decades ago - when GNOME 3 arrived, and KDE 4 - rough times, things broke and I had to do some distro (and DE) hopping - before settling again. Whenever you start to see a project mature and stable enough in Linux land, maybe even starts to gain unexpected traction, soon somebody decides it's time to "move fast and break things".

I sincerely hope KDE reconsiders X11 support; IIRC they proposed to keep it if the community showed still enough interest. Of course maintaining a dual stack requires double the effort, but if funding comes in, come on, maybe there's enough resources to keep X11 support alive - if feature freezed - a couple years more. There's still a few rough edges around Wayland that prevent me and others to switch.

[port11]

At some point, you have to break legacy support. I do wish Wayland had been so compelling that everyone’d switch, but I doubt KDE has the resources to perpetually support both.