- cross-posted to:
- foss@beehaw.org
- cross-posted to:
- foss@beehaw.org
Just a little system tray icon to show support for the LGBTQ+ community.
Originally created last year as a simple one-off project in response to Windows 11 users getting mad about a pride icon appearing on their task bar.
This year I remade it in Go, added support for Windows (7 and up), and improved compatibility with a variety of Linux environments.
Let me know what you think, or don’t, just please be nice about it.
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in response to Windows 11 users getting mad about a pride icon appearing on their task bar.
I didn’t hear about it, but the usual thing is that people get annoyed if you add unsolicited useless icons in the taskbar, especially if you do it with motivations related to politics or ideology.
If anyone is naive enough to think this is going to support us in any way, I encourage you to just do something like change the wallpaper, and never run random executables, ever. Or, you know, you can also do something that has SOME impact.
People in the Linux community were just having a laugh at Windows users who were unable to remove an icon, then some people were saying how they actually wanted a pride icon on their panel, so I wrote a simple python script and shared it.
Over the past year multiple people have said they liked the little icon in my system tray, so I decided to polish up the project and share it again. I’m not expecting it to change the world, I just thought some people out there might enjoy it.
EDIT: it’s not a random executable, the source code is right there, you can compile it yourself if you like.
Ok but how is it related to the topic of this community? I’m reporting this one.
It’s an open source project.
First community rule in the sidebar:
Posts must be relevant to the open source ideology
…and as OP just pointed out, it’s an open source project? That’s relevant IMO.
I’m upvoting this post just because I think some of the downvoting is ppl blowing off steam towards LGBT peeps.
Do you consider literally anything under an open source license to be relevant to open source ideology? I’m sure that if I make a folk replacing the flag with nyancat, davel@lemmy.ml won’t come to tell me that I should change the license and make warnings to those who report it, but to delete worthless nonsense.
This is the same thing, and only holds up because lgtb related things generate controversy, either by X-phobes, people like the OP who use us as virtue signaling with low effort content, and of course those who are afraid to point out nonsense for fear of being vilified as X-phobes.
Okay, let’s do this then. Show me where in that imaginary tome of “open source ideology” principles that “worthless nonsense” and “low effort content” are cause for dismissal. Who judges what is worthless and low effort, and on what criteria?
It’s fairly obvious that LGBTQIA+ related subjects are controversial, especially from the stink that you and a few others raise reflexively at the sight of a rainbow flag. Frankly, your opinions and bloviating is more worthless and low effort than an app that does nothing except display a flag in the system tray.
Aha, that’s what I meant by vilifying. Just bullshit, ad hominems and straw men. Pathetic.
Mate. You’re the one who says this open source app isn’t relevant to a community discussing open source software. The burden of proof is on you to prove its not relevant. If anything this project is as core to open source as it gets. This person wanted to explore a part of their computer system, picked a target for how to make something happen, did it, and then shared it.
Concluding that you’re a homophobe isn’t based on ad hominem attacks or straw man arguments. Its based on that you have NOTHING substantial to say that this doesn’t belong so the rest of us have to figure out what the hangup is and the only thing we can figure out is that its controversial because its about LGBTQIA+ pride and you don’t like that. We’d love to reach a different conclusion but you haven’t given us a lot to work with
I’m sure that if I make a folk replacing the flag with nyancat, davel@lemmy.ml won’t come to tell me that I should change the license and make warnings to those who report it, but to delete worthless nonsense.
This is the only strawman argument I’ve seen in this thread
How is this not relevant to open source ideology?
Because it’s gay… 😅
Kinda seems like that’s everyone who has a hangup on this’ REAL hangup, doesn’t it
To me it looks like one of that cases when a law (a rule in this case) is kind of obeyed but not how it’s supposed to be obeyed and the intention of the action actually does violate it.
It seemed like other people were sharing their open source projects here. If it’s against the rules I can post it somewhere else.
I’ve looked a bit into the past of this community and there’s quite a bunch of open source projects shared here and none of them had people in the comments complaining about that. Honestly just seems like thinly veiled queer hate to me.
I believe this post might have violated the first rule of this community so I said that. I could’ve just reported silently but imo what I said wasn’t toxic. Imo accusing me in “veiled queer hate” for it does nothing except for showing what kind of a person you are. And what’s interesting is that such accusations, alongside with most of the very negative reactions, start coming only after approximately 12 AM UTC which is the time when it’s morning in American regions… Extremely suspicious statistics I got here.
Anyways this time I want to kindly ask you not to accuse people just like that and actually think before saying something. Everything you say without proper analysis may hurt you or other people. I hope you have a good day.
Re proper analysis: Intentional or not, you did a homophobia in plain sight. Just eat the humble pie and give the weird conspiracies a rest.
I didn’t do any homophobia there. You’re just accusing me for fun or something idk. I won’t fight with you because I think that’s what you want. I would highly recommend you getting a Twitter/X account.
EDIT: there is an admin who confirmed that this post does indeed violate the rules in the comments.
Not sure I understand why train games are on topic because they’re open source but an open source desktop icon isn’t.
Check the comments and you’ll see an admin talking about it. The icon wasn’t even open-source when the post was created. But my original point was that the icon might have been an act of law abuse performed to justify talking about an unrelated topic in this community.
They said they forgot to add the license. I think it’s best to give them the benefit of the doubt and believe it was always meant to be open source, even before being posted here.
We sometimes ban people for false reporting. Something to keep in mind.
If someone constantly makes false reports or especially troll reports, it’s ok to ban them.
- Reporter: [REDACTED]
Reason: Violates rule 1 of the community - Reporter: [REDACTED]
Reason: Breaks Community Rules - Reporter: [REDACTED]
Reason: how is this related to the topic?
@absentbird@lemm.ee, AFAICT, they’re technically correct, because your repo doesn’t appear to have a license. You should go add one now.
Done. Thanks for reminding me.
- Reporter: [REDACTED]
nice :3
Ok but what does this have to do with being open source?
I wasn’t sure where to post it. It looked like this community had a decent number of posts showing off open source projects, so I figured it would fit in.
Cool Project. Would love to have somthing sinilar for disability inclusivity :)
Thank you!
I just added a feature where you can select whichever icon you want by editing the text file in
.config/prideicon/lastselectedJust make it one line of text with the absolute path to the icon (.png on Linux, .ico on Windows) then restart the program.
The OG rainbow pride flag was open source unlike the progress flag. Edit:This wound up just being a rumour.
You’re free to pick whichever one you prefer.
The progress flag is part of the creative commons, it isn’t exactly ‘closed source’: https://progress.gay/pages/terms-of-use
Oh last I heard the creator of the progress flag was collecting royalties.
Edit: I guess that was just a rumour.
