Hi all,
I open this topic here because I’ve just read the blog which sadly refers to the Camunda internal discussion.
The blog entry in my opinion is to strict to decide between with custom symbols or without.
In my opinion both views of a BPMN diagram are valid.
If you would like to have a pure vanilla more business view with standardized symbols and want more focus on design you would perhaps decide for the BPMN view.
If you want to reach more technical people or want to focus on implementation the custom icons are the more suitable solution.
It reminds me to the tab in webmodeler: the switch from design to implementation.
So the solution to remove the custom icons from the BPMN xml file is as wrong as always showing the custom symbols.
I expected to have a switch in the modeler (perhaps implemented by the underlying bpmn.io js-libs already) to show a model with vanilla symbols or with the embedded custom symbols in the xml.
So the custom symbols are always available and can be shown on demand.
I think that should satisfy all situations and the pro and con groups.
What do you think?
Uwe (won’t show the blue elephant task to my boss, but to my developer 
depending on the target group)
