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Is system-restart an app icon?
Another one which is present in the base theme and possibly should not be included in the app icon themes.
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.
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.