If you want a "donate button" in your application, you can go to paypal and go through the "create a donate" button setup. In the end you choose to create an email link. This means that paypal will store most things on their side regarding your button. Then you create a button in your app (e.g. in the about box) with the paypal/donate icon and connect it to the email link paypal just gave you for use in emails. IMHO that's the easiest way to link from you app to a paypal donation.

The result: Your app has a donate button and once a user clicks it the browser will open with everything in place to directly donate. Osm2Go and Gpxview both have this tiny button in their about boxes. Feel free to "steal" that feature and/or improve it.

anything thats open source id be glad to donate to. when the system is in place just let me know.

how would i donate to irreco team. the process needs to be simplified and the ui would be cooler if it looked like a remote and worked in portrait mode.

All developers should have a website full of ads, and software they make can include a link to this website in the "About". I mean, I'm ready to click them all if I enjoy using the application.

There is this Brainstorm proposal Donations are not simplified and not enough emphasized

Please propose and vote solutions. The related discussion thread is http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?p=354950

My own thoughts on this have solidified recently: http://lists.maemo.org/pipermail/mae...ry/023980.html