Comment 1 for bug 1113302

I'm not in favor of re-using one gradient in the current icons file. There are gradients for varying base colors, and if those could be preserved where it makes sense it would be great. But in addition to that, before opening and editing the icons.svg, having the following in your preferences.xml file helps to reduce file size (per http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Icons#Single_SVG_File ):

    <group
       id="svgoutput"
       usenamedcolors="0"
       numericprecision="7"
       minimumexponent="-8"
       inlineattrs="1"
       indent="0" />

Personally I'm curious if we can educe the numeric precision by a couple digits and not lose any real detail/precision.