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My color scheme https://www.monokai.pro https://www.monokai.pro is downloadable for free for Sublime and VSCode. It has a nag screen a la Sublime Text that tell

My color scheme https://www.monokai.pro https://www.monokai.pro is downloadable for free for Sublime and VSCode. It has a nag screen a la Sublime Text that tells you it's free for evaluation, but needs a license for continued usage. A small percentage of people purchases a license, but for sure not all 200K of them.

huhtenberg 8y ago
To put it bluntly and I mean no offense whatsoever - you come across as completely nuts trying to charge 10 EUR for a damn color scheme. That's basically what 200K people think when dismissing your nag.
- monokai_nl 8y ago
  It's a color scheme, user interface theme and icon set in one. Why do you think it's nuts to charge €10 for that? Do you think it should be free?
  - huhtenberg 8y ago
    Rationally it makes some sense, but irrationally - charging money for such triviality as a choice of colors is ridiculous. I can see buying _icons_ being a bit more justified, because it implies at least some amount of non-trivial work on your end, but I don't really know anyone willing to pay for better code editor icons. Also the fact that you offering to buy a "license" is off-putting, again considering the context of selling a set of RGB values. It's too grandiose, which too contributes to this looking nuts. Just say "buy" the scheme and it'll already be much better.
    - monokai_nl 8y ago
      I understand charging for a code editor theme is not common practice. However, I don't see much difference between the work that goes into designing and developing a simple (Wordpress) web theme and a code editor theme. In the end a web theme is also a set of RGB values and other styling settings. And charging for that is acceptable. I think it depends on what you think is trivial and what is not. I think designing a coherent theme is not trivial.
    - imhoguy 8y ago
      Off-putting? You should check PANTONE and their licensing business. Anyway it's all about mixing electromagnetic waves.
    - jakobegger 8y ago
      I've spent a lot of time picking colors for my app, and there's nothing "trivial" about it. It's a lot of work. I totally understand that someone would charge money for it.
- charlesdm 8y ago
  The fact that 200k people have downloaded it means it has value. I'm actually more surprised 200k people have downloaded a custom colour scheme. But since they have, I don't think 10 EUR is excessive to charge for something like that.
  - abcd_f 8y ago
    They downloaded it because it was free. Its value is in the fact that it's free.

huhtenberg 8y ago

To put it bluntly and I mean no offense whatsoever - you come across as completely nuts trying to charge 10 EUR for a damn color scheme. That's basically what 200K people think when dismissing your nag.

monokai_nl 8y ago
It's a color scheme, user interface theme and icon set in one. Why do you think it's nuts to charge €10 for that? Do you think it should be free?
- huhtenberg 8y ago
  Rationally it makes some sense, but irrationally - charging money for such triviality as a choice of colors is ridiculous. I can see buying _icons_ being a bit more justified, because it implies at least some amount of non-trivial work on your end, but I don't really know anyone willing to pay for better code editor icons. Also the fact that you offering to buy a "license" is off-putting, again considering the context of selling a set of RGB values. It's too grandiose, which too contributes to this looking nuts. Just say "buy" the scheme and it'll already be much better.
  - monokai_nl 8y ago
    I understand charging for a code editor theme is not common practice. However, I don't see much difference between the work that goes into designing and developing a simple (Wordpress) web theme and a code editor theme. In the end a web theme is also a set of RGB values and other styling settings. And charging for that is acceptable. I think it depends on what you think is trivial and what is not. I think designing a coherent theme is not trivial.
  - imhoguy 8y ago
    Off-putting? You should check PANTONE and their licensing business. Anyway it's all about mixing electromagnetic waves.
  - jakobegger 8y ago
    I've spent a lot of time picking colors for my app, and there's nothing "trivial" about it. It's a lot of work. I totally understand that someone would charge money for it.
charlesdm 8y ago
The fact that 200k people have downloaded it means it has value. I'm actually more surprised 200k people have downloaded a custom colour scheme. But since they have, I don't think 10 EUR is excessive to charge for something like that.
- abcd_f 8y ago
  They downloaded it because it was free. Its value is in the fact that it's free.