Re: GtkIconSource

[Alexander Larsson <alla lysator liu se>]

On 15 Mar 2001, Havoc Pennington wrote:

> 
> Hi,
> 
> See http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=51256
> 
> The problem is that GtkIconSource is not extensible.
> 
> Suggest we implement Alex's fix that we do it like GtkRcStyle, that
> is, you can't allocate the icon source statically, you have to use
> gtk_icon_source_new(). And have accessor functions.
> 
> People won't typically create icon sources anyway, probably they'll
> use gtk_icon_set_new_from_pixbuf() or just an RC file. So we shouldn't
> handicap our ability to add to GtkIconSource just to allow convenient
> static initializers, since this is rarely-used functionality.

I never understood why it used static initializers in the first
place. They're hard to read and it's easy to make a mistake when filling
them in.

/ Alex