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

  • stevecrox@mastodonapp.uk
    4·
    10 months ago

    @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

    • Toes♀
      2·
      10 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@mastodonapp.uk
        2·
        10 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.