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If issue 96532 is implemented, it is desirably to consider all resources (especially icons) in public packages part of an API and track changes among them. Enhance the verification framework: http://openide.netbeans.org/proposals/arch/clusters.html#verify to track resources in public packages, list them in the ide/golden files and warn about their changes.
No plan to do it in near future - wontfix.