what about the scalable subdir in the oxygen-icons5 sources?

[Rex Dieter]

René J. V. Bertin wrote:


>> So all the PNG versions are there as handcrafted optimized versions of
>> their SVG counterpart, so the icons are still usable when needed in sizes
>> of 16,22,24,32,48,...
> 
> Isn't that an answer to the question "why are there also png icons" (or to
> "why are so many provided as svgs for a particular bitmap size")?
> 
>> SVG versions no longer need handcrafted substitutes) that would not
>> really be recommended, so no-one has yet added support for that.
> 
> I actually discovered the existence of the scalable icons because of
> "oxygen- icons5-scalable" packages provided by Fedora and Arch.

I'm not aware of fedora providing any such thing.

As far as I know, the .svg icons included in the tarball is generally 
considered the "source code" for the shipped (generally png) icons

-- Rex