Re: High Quality Icon For GtkWindow

[Mattias Gaertner <nc-gaertnma netcologne de>]

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

Mattias