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UI icons workaround for Inkscape 0.91 on Windows

[Note: this issue has been solved with the release of Inkscape version 0.92 in January 2017.] An 'In-x-scapable' problem When version 0.91 of Inkscape , the famous free and open source SVG illustration program, was finally released last year (it took five years for it to jump from 0.48 directly to 0.91), fans were wowed by the  new features . However, a bug soon surfaced:  Missing icons in toolbars and menus (they used to be there in the previous 0.48 version). This presentationally embarassing shortcoming usually happens on Inkscape 0.91 installed on Windows™ and OS X™: Menu icons Expected action icons, like document 'templates', 'revert', 'preferences', 'undo' and 'redo' were replaced by document icons with red 'x' on them. Also the right-to-left (RTL) icons, for right to left systems, remained at the left-to-right direction. However, the buttons still worked when pressed. 'undo' and 'redo' t...