[Tango-artists] creating an icon-repository

[Steven M. Ottens]

Hi all,

I'm a huge fan of the tango icon set and its guidelines. So I'm  
introducing the idea of a consistent icon set for my field of work  
(Geographical Information Science). The main body of open source GIS  
is the OSGeo foundation[1] and I've introduced this idea and was met  
with general agreement. Someone already created a basic set of icons 
[2] for a specific GIS application inspired by the Tango guidelines.  
I've contacted him and he agreed to help to setup a broader icon set  
[3], based on his initial work.
So now we have the task to setup a repository to store the icons and  
make them available for all projects. We've been discussing a bit how  
to setup such a repository and one of the issues we ran into is that  
we rarely have one SVG file per icon, commonly similar icons are  
drawn in one layered SVG file. We like to have the source of the  
icons (the svg file) available for future modification but we don't  
want to spend ages on splitting our SVG files into one svg-file per  
size per icon. I noticed a screencast by Jakub Steiner on his one  
canvas workflow[4] and was thinking that a similar approach might be  
used to render bitmaps from source-SVGs in an automated way, if the  
source-SVGs are setup nicely. So I like to know how other projects  
have dealt with these issues, is it common to store to source SVG  
files, do people use automated render scripts, common pitfalls in  
icon management etc

Many thanks,
Steven

[1] http://www.osgeo.org
[2] http://robert.szczepanek.pl/icons.php
[3] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/OSGeo_icon_set
[4] http://jimmac.musichall.cz/log/?p=436