{"id":68621,"date":"2025-03-14T12:31:57","date_gmt":"2025-03-14T12:31:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mailinvest.blog\/index.php\/2025\/03\/14\/dash-to-panel-maintainer-quits-after-failed-donations-drive-the-register\/"},"modified":"2025-03-14T12:33:03","modified_gmt":"2025-03-14T12:33:03","slug":"dash-to-panel-maintainer-quits-after-failed-donations-drive-the-register","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mailinvest.blog\/index.php\/2025\/03\/14\/dash-to-panel-maintainer-quits-after-failed-donations-drive-the-register\/","title":{"rendered":"Dash to Panel maintainer quits after failed donations drive \u2022 The Register"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The maintainer of some of the common extensions to customise the GNOME desktop is stepping down and in search of somebody to take over growth after a fundraising effort backfired.<\/p>\n

Charles Gagnon wrote on the Dash to Panel<\/a> GitHub<\/a> web page this week:<\/p>\n

Quebec-based Gagnon of Decymal<\/a> has been concerned in Sprint to Panel since January 2018, although his contributions do not return so far as the mission’s origins. In its first couple of years, a lot of the work was completed by Jason DeRose<\/a>, though he hasn’t made any modifications since 2021. The extension was initially based mostly on the Zorin OS taskbar<\/a> by Artyom Zorin \u2013 nevertheless Sprint to Panel’s original README<\/a> says that it was in flip based mostly on Michele Gaio’s Dash to Dock<\/a>. (Much more folks use that extension<\/a>. Not solely does it have almost 9 million downloads, however the Ubuntu Dock is a fork of Dash to Dock<\/a>.) So if another person does<\/em> take over, it will not be the primary time.<\/p>\n

Gagnon’s transfer follows an try to boost some donations that backfired badly. The Dash to Panel extension<\/a>, which on the time of writing has been downloaded a formidable 4,009,303 occasions, merges two parts of the GNOME Shell<\/a>, the highest bar and the “sprint,” right into a single, Home windows-like taskbar. The mission’s GitHub page<\/a> contains quite a few screenshots showcasing its look.<\/p>\n

His effort to boost funds for the mission has gone down exceptionally badly with some customers, because the feedback on the change<\/a> reveals. Gagnon requested for some money by including a pinned app icon to the panel, within the type of a pink coronary heart. Clicking it revealed a message requesting donations, and this \u2013 along with the menu choice to cover the brand new icon \u2013 had a 20-second timeout connected. The mixture of grabbing the primary place on the panel (and the accompanying hotkey) and the enforced wait upset a number of customers, with feedback calling it an “agressive [sic] donation push,” complaining that “this stage of pressured interplay with a donation request is totally unacceptable,” and “I do not assume belief ought to be positioned upon the mission and it is [sic] core builders.”<\/p>\n

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