Re: status icon API

[Bill Haneman <bill haneman sun com>]

On Thu, 2003-04-10 at 15:38, Owen Taylor wrote:
 
> >From my perspective:
>  
>  * There must be a plain GdkPixbuf * based API, because if
>    nothing else, people will want to be be able to draw
>    icons on the fly. 
>
>  * I'm pretty positive named icon themes (What GnomeIconTheme wraps,
>    not stock icons) will be in 2.4. Because I really need them
>    for the file selector, and because we need a better way of 
>    making GTK+ stock icons follow the icon theme.

OK.  In the meantime we have the gnome-2.4 headaches regarding
applications and themes...
 
> While GTK+ is meant to be a accessiblity-friendly toolkit,
> we won't remove useful API because it could possibly be used
> in non-accessible ways.

Of course.  But I think 'new' API should always have slots for names,
and be themeable, etc.  Even if an app draws icons on the fly, I think
it's desirable to be able to add theme support without recoding.

And in cases where the existing api has only "foo_from_pixmap
(filename), I'd like to see additional (preferred) API with
"foo_named_from_pixmap (name, filename)"  or similar.

Using the old icon-on-the-fly API is inherently inaccessible as far as I
can see (it results in nameless images), at least without adding lots of
explicit ATK call goo.

- Bill
 
> Regards,
>                                         Owen
> 
>