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[Conscious User <conscioususer@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

Just to address a concern that Joey raised on Google+: Polly has always 
used custom icons instead of the system icons. There are two reasons:

1) There are a lot of functions for which there are no adequate stock 
names, such as "retweet" and "follow". And some of the functions that 
*do* have are somewhat questionable: for example, lots of themes use an 
envelope for the "reply" icon because the major use of this icon is 
email. However, in Twitter envelopes are associated with DMs. So even if 
I was using the system iconset engine, I would still be requiring icons 
that are not part of the popular themes.

2) I am very obsessed with proportions and I wrote a lot of code to 
ensure that icons and avatars are always exactly proportional to the 
font size. However, the GTK iconset engine expects you to use a limited 
set of fixed font sizes (16, 22, 48) and offers little support to 
arbitrary sizes. Because of this, it's very common for icon artists to 
use SVGs only from 48 to above. And I need SVGs to ensure that the 
resizing is always crisp.

Yes, there is potential for lack of consistency right there. But I'm 
trying to compensate this by shipping iconsets for the most popular 
themes out there, with the valuable help of Joern, Georgi and Chris.