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