Reducing icon sets

[Unai Garro]

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If you do a small query on the icons under crystalsvg, you'll find the 
extensive work an artist has to do to create a full set of icons for KDE. 
Actually, I don't think there's any such full set right now.

So do a small check like:

[uga at localhost kdecvs/share/icons/crystalsvg/32x32]$ find -iname '*.png' |wc 
- --w
    607

[uga at localhost kdecvs/share/icons/crystalsvg/16x16]$ find -iname '*.png' |wc 
find -iname '*.png' |wc --w
    664


Impressive numbers heh? Well, there's even more to show. The numbers in 
iconsets like iKons mark a clear limit for an artist:

[uga at localhost kdecvs/share/icons/ikons/32x32]$ find -iname '*.png' |wc --w
     90
[uga at localhost kdecvs/share/icons/hicolor/32x32]$ find -iname '*.png' |wc --w
     32

Looks like 3.0 became the boom of the icons? 20 times more than hicolor


This is a big problem in KDE: the apps don't provide their icons. It's the DE 
that provides them. So what in the future when there are 1000 more apps? Just 
make the artists draw 50,000 svg icons? 

Now, a possible solution: kde should only provide those icons common to most 
apps (mainly actions: back, forward, reload, remove, edit, file,...), and 
mimetypes. The rest, should be the apps' work.

Well, not sure if this would improve the kde's current status since we have 
gorgeous icons, but would allow more icon sets to be created, and more 
artists to join. oh, and Everaldo would probably thank you all :))

Just mho. Regards,

	Unai

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