Is system-restart an app icon?

[palob]

Another one which is present in the base theme and possibly should not be included in the app icon themes.

[KBeDevel]

In most systems, the reboot function is not considered as an application entry.

At least in KDE Plasma icon list (with the numix circle theme installed), there is a group named "actions". Filtered by the term reboot, you can see these results:

There are no results returned for the term reboot in the applications group:

Considering this case, i think the reboot itself is a reference to a system action/job.

On the other side, if we consider a system action reference as a formal call to a group of resources or a command execution, it can be considered as an application, indeed. So, to set a rule to determinate or filter if something is an application or not, the criteria could be, for example, the .desktop extension.

[palob]

Thank you for sharing your insights. I think the icons were added because some DEs show(ed) those in menus just like app launchers.
These days I guess there are more cases where the app icon will look out of place than cases where it helps.

[palob]

Just noticed this is/was being addressed in #4585.