[adwaita-icon-theme] symbolic: no new icons default policy



commit f10caaf68b7df1bff7662d1345cb3fc0e4b3256c
Author: Jakub Steiner <jimmac gmail com>
Date:   Tue Jun 29 12:27:33 2021 +0200

    symbolic: no new icons default policy
    
    - NO is the default answer (as opposed to icon-development-kit)

 README.md | 5 +++--
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
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diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index d91bb3366..97c028647 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -9,10 +9,11 @@ If you're a core GNOME application maintainer and you have an icon need that bri
 For an up to date guide on how to use and how to design GNOME style icons, see the [GNOME User Interface 
Guidelines](https://developer.gnome.org/hig/stable/icons-and-artwork.html.en).
 
 ## Building and Contributing to Adwaita
-Symbolic icons are no longer maintained using hand rolled ruby script and inkscape to render them out, but 
instead shares the same workflow as 3rd party symbolics, the icon 
[Devkit](https://gitlab.gnome.org/Teams/Design/icon-development-kit).
+Symbolic icons are no longer maintained using hand rolled ruby script and inkscape to render them out, but 
instead shares the same workflow as 3rd party symbolics, the [icon 
devkit](https://gitlab.gnome.org/Teams/Design/icon-development-kit).
 
-While many legacy symbolics only live as the exported individual SVGS in `Adwaita/scalable/`, the new 
additions and replacements are maintained in `src/symbolic/core.svg`. The contexts are [no longer 
used](https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/adwaita-icon-theme/-/issues/73) and all icons go into `actions`. Please 
refer to the [Devkit guidelines]() on how to structure the metadata.
+While many legacy symbolics only live as the exported individual SVGS in `Adwaita/scalable/`, the 
replacements are maintained in `src/symbolic/core.svg`. The contexts are [no longer 
used](https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/adwaita-icon-theme/-/issues/73) and all icons go into `actions`. Please 
refer to the [Devkit guidelines]() on how to structure the metadata.
 
+Do note that no new additions should be made unless very thoroughly discussed. *a-i-t* is the wrong way to 
reuse icon assets (no API, false promise of stability).
 
 ### Recoloring
 The color of the icon set is defined at runtime by the gtk theme. Every single icon from the set is actually 
embedded inside an xml container that has a stylesheet overriding the colors.


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