Enable KDE icon sets in Drupal

Status: moved http://groups.drupal.org/node/9836 to the official ideas list; please comment over there.

We will be drawing our own icons but wouldn't it be nice if people could enable existing icon sets within Drupal as well?

• a module that lists available iconsets, something like the themes admin page
• configure how the icons are used: sizes, where to use, where not.
• map the existing naming spec to basis Drupal concepts
• integrate with your theme (generate an icons.css file?)

This was triggered by the icons I did for filefield module. They were named along the freedesktop standard naming spec for mime-types, because dopry mentioned wanting to build something that would enable people to just drop in existing icons for these: http://drupal.org/node/115223, see #14 and #21

I don't code so I don't know how to scope this out as a development project so I'd like to know what others think.

(Another thought: Automate a part of new icon creation with a toolkit that could automatically export different sizes of PNGs from SVG sourcefiles, name them and put them in the right directories etc.)