Re: High Quality Icon For GtkWindow

[Thomas Jollans <t jollybox de>]

On 06/22/2012 08:11 PM, Mattias Gaertner wrote:
> On Fri, 22 Jun 2012 13:41:22 -0400
> "Jasper St. Pierre" <jstpierre mecheye net> wrote:
>
> > On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 1:20 PM, Mattias Gaertner
> > <nc-gaertnma netcologne de> wrote:
> > > On Wed, 20 Jun 2012 12:49:32 -0400
> > > "Jasper St. Pierre" <jstpierre mecheye net> wrote:
> > >
> > > > The issue is that GTK+ doesn't transfer a high-quality icon over the
> > > > wire. I don't think it's a good idea to try and transfer a 96x96 and
> > > > 48x48 icon over the wire, either.
> > >
> > > I see. So it avoids overhead over for remote applications. That's nice.
> > > But in my case it's not a network connection. The application runs
> > > locally.
> > >
> > > Maybe I set some flag wrong and gtk believes I'm using a network
> > > connection? What flag could that be?
> >
> > Whether or not you actually run over network, there's still a wire
> > protocol involved.
>
> What is the purpose of the optional larger icons the
> documentation talks about?
>
> http://developer.gnome.org/gtk/stable/GtkWindow.html#gtk-window-set-icon-list

This allows you to have 16x16, 22x22, 24x24, and 32x32 sized icons. At 
these sizes, you'd often want specially-designed small icons when the 
window manager displays them in that size. That's uncommon these days, 
of course...

If you're on the local machine, then just install a damn desktop file. 
It's a disappointing workaround, but that's how it's done because we 
happen to be using systems that were designed at a time when having an 
icon larger than 32x32 was considered absurd. Everybody hates X11 for 
this and a million other reasons, but it's just not that easy to get rid of.

Thomas