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Pride System Icon (gitlab.com)
submitted 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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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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[–] [email protected] 26 points 4 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

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.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 months ago (1 children)
  • 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?

@[email protected], AFAICT, they’re technically correct, because your repo doesn’t appear to have a license. You should go add one now.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 4 months ago

Done. Thanks for reminding me.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago

nice :3

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (2 children)

The OG rainbow pride flag was open source unlike the progress flag. Edit:This wound up just being a rumour.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Oh last I heard the creator of the progress flag was collecting royalties.

Edit: I guess that was just a rumour.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Ok but what does this have to do with being open source?

[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 months ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago (3 children)

Ok but how is it related to the topic of this community? I'm reporting this one.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 4 months ago (2 children)

It's an open source project.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago (2 children)

First community rule in the sidebar:

Posts must be relevant to the open source ideology

[–] [email protected] 21 points 4 months ago (2 children)

...and as OP just pointed out, it's an open source project? That's relevant IMO.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

I’m upvoting this post just because I think some of the downvoting is ppl blowing off steam towards LGBT peeps.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago (2 children)

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, [email protected] 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.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Aha, that's what I meant by vilifying. Just bullshit, ad hominems and straw men. Pathetic.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months 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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

I’m sure that if I make a folk replacing the flag with nyancat, [email protected] 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

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 months ago (1 children)

How is this not relevant to open source ideology?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

Because it's gay.. 😅

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago

Kinda seems like that's everyone who has a hangup on this' REAL hangup, doesn't it

[–] [email protected] -5 points 4 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 4 months ago (1 children)

It seemed like other people were sharing their open source projects here. If it's against the rules I can post it somewhere else.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 4 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months 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.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Not sure I understand why train games are on topic because they’re open source but an open source desktop icon isn’t.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

We sometimes ban people for false reporting. Something to keep in mind.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

If someone constantly makes false reports or especially troll reports, it's ok to ban them.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Cool Project. Would love to have somthing sinilar for disability inclusivity :)

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago

Thank you!

I just added a feature where you can select whichever icon you want by editing the text file in .config/prideicon/lastselected

Just make it one line of text with the absolute path to the icon (.png on Linux, .ico on Windows) then restart the program.