I guess GNOME 49’s notifications requesting donations are justified, but they can be annoying. Yesterday one popped up on my HTPC just after I’d started playing a video. GNOME seems to attract a lot of unfair hate and this gives the haters another excuse.
What if they were moved to gdm? The message could just appear under the login prompt without getting in the way. Pressing the Donate button would log you in and immediately open the browser.
I’m not a fan of how this donation thing has been implemented, but moving this notification to GDM, the login manager, does not make sense as that’s something that should be controllable per user (e.g., do not show for children in multi-user context).
Here, given that’s a notification, it is more about having the option to temporarily enable Do Not Disturb for specific activities.
I think it’s a bug for the notification to appear on top of a fullscreen video. I think that happens because it’s marked as urgent priority, but that should probably be reserved for urgencies like low power warnings. @felipeborges any objections to removing that priority?
That’s a fair point. Is there an option to disable it then?
gsettings set org.gnome.settings-daemon.plugins.housekeeping donation-reminder-enabled false should do the trick
GNOME seems to attract a lot of unfair hate and this gives the haters another excuse.
Note that for some reason KDE also went that path, largely from what I can see due to Nate deciding to pursue this policy.