On Sun, Jun 12, 2011 at 3:18 PM, Jon Cruz <jon@...18...> wrote:

On Jun 12, 2011, at 2:53 PM, Krzysztof Kosiński wrote:

> 2011/6/12 Alex Valavanis <valavanisalex@...400...>:
>> Hi Josh,
>>
>> The small icons that appear in the handle of our docked dialogs are
>> all rendered in this manner as far as I can tell. At the moment,
>> upstream gdl only allows dialogs to be created either with no icon in
>> the handle at all [gdl_dock_item_new()] or with a stock icon in the
>> handle [gdl_dock_item_new_with_stock()]. We have added a new option
>> [gdl_dock_item_new_with_pixbuf_icon()] that allows a pixbuf icon to be
>> used in the handle.
>
> I think the best solution would be to expose the GtkImage widget that
> displays the dock icon as a property, so that we can use
> gtk_image_set_from_pixbuf or gtk_image_set_from_icon_name on it.

That might not be the best.

Among other things you end up with a single-sized bitmap that is used regardless of situation and user preferences. It is much more flexible to use a custom stock icon. Since Inkscape hooks itself in as a provider of stock icons, it can supply any as needed, and with dynamic sizing.

Work-arounds include rendering and grabbing a pixmap early in the process, but that has led to many bugs, including some significant crashing in many apps (not just Inkscape). But that a proper solution fixes crashing without need for work-around code, and also provides proper dynamic sizing, makes it a much better choice.

Regardless, gtk_image_set_from_pixbuf should be avoided.

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