Re: GEmblemedIcons help

[Alexander Larsson <alexl redhat com>]

On Mon, 2009-02-16 at 20:18 +0100, Nicolò Chieffo wrote:
> > I think it's an OK trade off to leak this memory since invalidating the
> > cache would rarely happen.
> 
> I didn't know that leaking memory would be allowed!

Of course leaking memory isn't something that is generally a good idea.
However, totally absolute rules like "never leak anything" don't always
work out in practice, and its imho acceptable to like a very small
string in a very uncommon case in order to keep compat and implement
useful features.