https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=502273

--- Comment #14 from pallaswept <[email protected]> ---
(In reply to Akseli Lahtinen from comment #12)

Thanks Akseli!

> I'm curious though why it has been done this way, the git blame doesnt show 
> that far back.

I suspect it's XDG compliance:
https://specifications.freedesktop.org/icon-theme-spec/latest/#icon_lookup
Their pseudocode implementation specifically prefers PNG. To save you the time,
one of the two examples:

    for extension in ("png", "svg", "xpm") {
      if exists directory/iconname.extension
        return directory/iconname.extension
    }

So it won't even consider svg unless there is no suitable png found. I seem to
remember reading that xdg historically did it that way because svg could be too
expensive.

Hope that's helpful.

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