Why not using python-xstatic for all icons

[sf-migrator-bot]

Hello I got a bug report about embeded icons in taurus.

I found this solutions in order to facilitate the third_party distribution.

https://xstatic.readthedocs.org/en/latest/intro.html

cheers

Reported by: picca ( http://sf.net/u/piccaf )

[sf-migrator-bot]

I had a look at xstatic. It seems ok to me, but IMHO it is something to be done after we deal with the related but more urgent issue of avoid using resource files for icons ([#280])

Original comment by: cpascual (http://sourceforge.net/u/cpascual)

[cpascual]

Since now we support setuptools/PyPI/conda for installing taurus on all platforms, it is easier to work with dependencies (even on windows) and therefore I think it is time to re-visit this old suggestion from @picca of removing the icon files from the taurus package.

By just removing the Tango-Desktop and rrze icon dirs we get the following improvements:

• reduce package size from ~18Mb to ~8Mb
• improve build times from ~20s to ~8s (in my pc)
• reduce install log clutter from ~2100 to ~900 lines

Also, we would avoid duplication (e.g. on debian and other distros, the Tango and rrze icons are already packaged, so we could just depend on them straight away in those platforms)

Some things to consider:

• the suggestion of using xstatic may be a good way to go
• there is a tango-icons module already in PyPI (it does not use xstatic) which provides the svg files (it seems as it could integrated in taurus.qt.qtgui.icons straight away). I could not find anything equivalent for RRZE, but it would be trivial to do it based on this)
• Creating a taurus.qt.qtgui.icons entry-point may help in maintaining backwards compatibility
• Keep in mind the existing icon resource management API from taurus (e.g. registerPathFiles())