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Add a pride flag to the system tray of most Linux environments.

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.

          •  Canary9341   ( @Canary9341@lemmy.ml ) 
            1•6 days ago

            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.

            •  Handles   ( @halm@leminal.space ) English
              6•6 days ago

              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.

                •  The Cuuuuube   ( @Cube6392@beehaw.org ) English
                  4•6 days ago

                  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

            •  The Cuuuuube   ( @Cube6392@beehaw.org ) English
              4•6 days ago

              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

          •  Sas [she/her]   ( @Sas@beehaw.org ) 
            22•7 days ago

            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.

            •  GolfNovemberUniform   ( @GolfNovemberUniform@lemmy.ml ) 
              3•7 days ago

              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.

                •  GolfNovemberUniform   ( @GolfNovemberUniform@lemmy.ml ) 
                  3•7 days ago

                  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.

      •  GolfNovemberUniform   ( @GolfNovemberUniform@lemmy.ml ) 
        2•6 days ago

        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.