On Feb 10, 2009, at 4:02 PM, Krzysztof Kosiński wrote:

You know, I'm a theme author as well, and I can't theme Inkscape - in this

respect it's broken :) A better icon theme doesn't add features, but it is

an important factor contributing to the application's perceived quality.

Xsane has awful icons, and looks like like a low quality application because

of this.

But as of post-0.46 changes, you *can* theme Inkscape. It first and foremost looks to the system for icons, and only uses its internal ones if no system ones are present for that name.