Graham: Asking for donations in Plasma

The KDE project plans to directly
ask for donations in the Plasma desktop starting with version
6.2. According to this
blog post by Nate Graham, users will see a
system notification once per year (in December) asking for a
donation to the non-profit KDE e.V.:

Now, I know that messages like this can be controversial! The
change was carefully considered, and we tried our best to minimize
the annoying-ness factor: It's small and unobtrusive, and no matter
what you do with it (click any button, close it, etc) it'll go away
until next year. It's implemented as a KDE Daemon (KDED) module,
which allows users and distributors to permanently disable it if they
like.