Third-party application icons

[Rob Kaper]

It came to my attention that kdebase contains a lot of icons for third-party
applications, such as:

kdebase/pics/crystalsvg/cr32-app-linuxconf.png
kdebase/pics/crystalsvg/cr32-app-mathematica.png
kdebase/pics/crystalsvg/cr32-app-mozilla.png
kdebase/pics/crystalsvg/cr32-app-mozilla_m.png
kdebase/pics/crystalsvg/cr32-app-mozilla_mail.png
kdebase/pics/crystalsvg/cr32-app-xmms.png

1) Why aren't these in kdeartwork? The kdebase package is big enough as it is.

2) What's the policy for adding third-party application icons to KDE,
   especially when it comes to proprietary applications such as Mathematica? 
   Do we endorse these applications more than others?

3) Why have third-party icons at all? Are we taking over distribution
   responsibility of updating user menus when third-party applications are
   installed? (I suppose that's a questionmark as old as the existance of
   kappfinder.. with all the .desktop and later XDG hoopla, isn't all this
   completely deprecated?)

4) Where do we find the time to create third-party application icons while
   hundreds of Crystal icons for actions and applications actually within
   KDE CVS are unmaintained?

Rob
-- 
Rob Kaper     | "In the name of sheer pity, won't someone operate on
cap at capsi.com | Chairman Arafat and put that poor cancer into a cleaner
www.capsi.com | environment? -- Rick Brookhiser
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