Skinning buttons in Spark

Hi guys,
Is this ture to say that for every button that has an icon in spark, a new skin should be created?

I threw together a quick demo of this and posted it on github.
Here you go: http://github.com/simb/IconButtonDemo
Hope that helps.
Simeon Bateman
[email protected]
Principal Instigator
PNW Rain LLC

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Revision: 14327
Revision: 14327
Author:   [email protected]
Date:     2010-02-22 08:48:05 -0800 (Mon, 22 Feb 2010)
Log Message:
Fix maximize/ restore button in spark chrome skin when running on AIR 2.
Listen for the Window state change event instead of expecting the change to happen immediately.
QE notes: None.
Doc notes: None.
Bugs: SDK-25303
Reviewer: Alex
Tests run: checkintests
Is noteworthy for integration: No.
Ticket Links:
    http://bugs.adobe.com/jira/browse/SDK-25303
Modified Paths:
    flex/sdk/branches/4.x/frameworks/projects/airspark/src/spark/components/Window.as
    flex/sdk/branches/4.x/frameworks/projects/airspark/src/spark/components/WindowedApplicati on.as
    flex/sdk/branches/4.x/frameworks/projects/airspark/src/spark/components/windowClasses/Tit leBar.as

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