Peter Linnell wrote:
One more good reason for a single icon file: packaging.
One of the things which has helped to make my life easier is the sane way inkscape is setup as a source tarball and a well done configure script. This made making decent rpms miles easier.
And the fewer dependencies and fewer installation hacks, the better.
If you have spent half a night chasing down missing files (sometimes icons) and fixing broken makefiles trying to build an rpm - you'll understand completely ;)
--- which we have been doing recently with those pesky individual .xmp files!!!
Peter
Oh, and dont forget CSS and XSLT being able to morph everything... themes and portability.
I don't know who originally came up with the idea of one file leveraging the benefits of XML. Makes life for -us- (the #1 reason) so much easier. Smart dude. I owe that man a beer! ;-)
Bob