To those who don't know it Pling (gnome-look, kde-look etc.) will stop paying artists for their work. It may be good or bad decision, but we'll see a lot less new stuff or updates.
My question to you is, will you pay for an icon theme for a symbolic amount (like $5), if an artist put their icon themes behind a paywall? I'm asking because I'm considering this option now. I have try with donation option, but it was utterly failure.
Of course they are, there is always somebody who wants to ruin it for others, by making decisions like this. I used to write professional reviews for Epinions back in the day. That was a nice source of side hustle income, plus I always enjoyed writing reviews. Until one day, Ebay the financial holder for Epinions decided, they were not going to pay reviewers anymore. Thats what ultimately killed Epinions.
Actually, yes I would, I think thats a plenty fair price asking to be supported, for your hard work. I won't pay for a subscription service though, only on a pay per theme bases. Far too many subscription services, which many are money scams, especially in regards to cars.
My money is tight these days though, but in the future, sounds great. What I am most annoyed about, is this lack of morality that sites have, where they decide, they don't need to pay for artists work. Imagine what Adam Savage would have said, if a producer went up to him, and said, "we want to produce a show called Mythbusters, we want you on the show, but were not going to pay you."
Yeah, I'm sure you know where Adam would tell him to stick it, and its not in the window seal.
I think the vast majority of users would not. Even with established known products, it would range between 1% and 5%. And that takes sympathetic themers and ricers into account.
There is a clear antagonistic view toward paywalls.
And while vocally, GnuLinux users are supportive of Developers and Creators being paid, they most often are not willing to be one of the ones to pay.
The most successful strategy is the Upgrade Path. (Interestingly... this is the strategy Zorin OS uses.)
In your case, this would be a core icon set for free. It includes all the essential standard icons in the set.
And then the pay-for extra version - that includes Steam Game Icons, distro specific icons or a more thorough Application Icons suite.
What the above does is it makes you an independent contributer, establishing a base with the core (free) product, but allows a sustainability approach to support development from people that now are already interested in your work (Since they have the Core Icon set and would not mind expanding it).
I think that depends on the price.
Unfortunately, it is often unclear for which apps the icon theme includes own icons
Some sets are very comprehensive and offer a separate icon for almost everything, while others are so incomplete because icons are missing that they don't look good on the computer. I have often uninstalled icon themes right away. They were nice, but there were too many outliers. This is particularly noticeable with monochrome themes.
Those ones which are made for a specific distribution often are a good base if you use this distribution and don't have too much other apps installed.
Pling had been doing shenanigans earlier I seem to remember both to you (@Storm) and @Aravisian. That is why I took down all my walls in support of you both. Been searching and found this; why 1 to 5 are not shown I don't know, but look for the paragraph that first mentions FlatIcons and others here. You may have to do some background checks on each:
[Side note: Pling also messed up synchronisation with Plasma and still is: Themes don't install correctly, or you have to use their OCS app which does not always work either. I get notifications in Discover when an update to a PurPur icon set comes back with: "Error, the update is for a different version" when it isn't!]
