Bonobo toolbar pixmaps.

[Nat Friedman <nat helixcode com>]

"Gene Z. Ragan" <gzr@eazel.com> writes:

>     Nat,
> 
>     Hi, my name is Gene Ragan and I work at Eazel.  Before Eazel I
> worked on icecast and some other open source goodies.
> 
>     Anyway, I was handed the task of making icons show up in bonobo menu
> items.  The internal nautilus structure that we use stores the icon data
> as a GdkPixbuf.  Internally, I modified the source of bonobo to handle
> RGB and RGBA data as a GdkPixbuf.  This may be offensive to the bonobo
> maintainers as it now requires a link against gdk-pixbuf.
> 
>     I had two thoughts, we could have bonobo support GdkPixbufs or there
> could be a bonobo specific structure defined that can package up rgb
> data.  Either solution works for me.

Hi Gene,

    I'm glad you are doing this work.  My personal feeling is that
I don't care if Bonobo depends on Gdk-pixbuf.  But until Gdk-pixbuf is
in Gtk, it does make me a bit uncomfortable.

    What I did to avoid a libxml dependency was to isolate all the XML
code in a separate library: libbonobo-xml.  Of course, the net result
has been that no one has used that code.  So maybe that's not what you
want to do.

    Can gdk-pixbuf render to some sort of usable RGBA format?  If so,
we might want to use that for now, and then later provide a wrapper
which allows you to pass a GdkPixbuf directly.  That would avoid a
link against gdk-pixbuf for now.

    Can we see the patch?

Nat