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[Chow Loong Jin <hyperair@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tuesday 27,April,2010 03:48 AM, Ted Gould wrote:
> 
> 
> For application indicators we're currently only taking icon names for
> the icons.  This allows for consistent theming of the icons along with
> the panel theme.  The problem that this creates is when dealing with
> dynamically generated icons.  There are several applications that abuse
> this (Bacula comes to mind) but applications like GNOME Settings Daemon
> uses this for the current keyboard layout (putting two letters of text
> as the icon).  I'd prefer to avoid sending all the theme information and
> update signals required to implement drawing of the icon to the
> application.  Is there another way that we can provide dynamic icons?

Regarding this point, can we not model it after the image-data hint of the
org.freedesktop.Notifications spec? I believe it sends a pixmap through D-Bus
from an application to notify-osd/notification-daemon.

Considering the size of the indicators, these icons should be pretty small,
compared to the kinds of images sent to notify-osd, so it should not cause a
huge memory leak like it did with notify-osd.

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Kind regards,
Chow Loong Jin

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