Applications need a way to create dynamic icons

Bug #650447 reported by Ted Gould
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This bug affects 3 people
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
Application Indicators
Confirmed
Wishlist
Unassigned
indicator-application (Ubuntu)
Confirmed
Wishlist
Unassigned

Bug Description

They need it, but how should we do it? That's not clear, but the fact that some applications need to be able to create icons on-the-fly or adapt others is clear. It needs to be able to be appropriately themable and resizable without complicating the interface.

See also bug 657857.

Ted Gould (ted)
Changed in indicator-application:
importance: Undecided → Wishlist
status: New → Confirmed
Revision history for this message
Michael Ekstrand (elehack) wrote :

I find myself needing this for progress/timer-like displays. Building 32K images just isn't going to cut it.

A (semi-ugly) method would be to ship serialized image data over D-Bus, but that isn't very themable.

description: updated
Ted Gould (ted)
Changed in indicator-application (Ubuntu):
importance: Undecided → Wishlist
status: New → Confirmed
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