Allow Users to Configure Their Own Default Icon Sets

[thenadz]

It has always been in the back of my head that the default icons should be user-configurable, rather that the weird-dimensioned icons I chose back when DG was first released. Additionally, since the current icons were not developed by me, license could be an issue, though I believe all icons to be under a (L)GPL license (which is compatible with the license which DG is under [GPL 2]).

I would even go so far as to say that I'd like to ship DG without any default icons in the future. It would make the download smaller and with the advent of the "fancy" icons they are far less useful than they were when DG was first released. The icons cover a vast array of filetypes, most of which would never be used on a site and just take up space. There would still be the limited MIME type icons that WordPress ships with, which DG already uses as a fallback when the DG-provided icons don't match.

If the user decided that the combination of "fancy" icons + the default WP MIME type icons was not enough, they can add a custom icon set by uploading the desired icon(s) and configuring which filetypes should be mapped to which icons.

[thenadz]

https://wordpress.org/support/topic/custom-icons-27