I'm hoping this is the right place, I didn't see a "creating plugins" or "theme questions" sort of sub-forum, so here I am.
I have a few plugins in use that have their own settings sections. As of now, they have no icons in the settings pane. I had someone whip up some nice little icons for "vacation" and "change password", and then I looked at how I'd integrate them and was a bit surprised. In what I assume is an effort to download as few images as possible when loading a page, throughout the "larry" skin I see that all the icons are combined in a large strip and then that strip is set as a background image for each button and positioned so that only the needed icon from the strip shows through.
I kind of get how that works, but I am at a total loss on how a plugin would then add it's own icon without totally replacing the stock "strip" of images.
Any good examples I can look at to see how you'd have a plugin supply it's own icon for the settings pane?