Method

GioIconto_string

since: 2.20

Declaration 

gchar*
g_icon_to_string (
  GIcon* icon
)

Description

Generates a textual representation of icon that can be used for serialization such as when passing icon to a different process or saving it to persistent storage. Use g_icon_new_for_string() to get icon back from the returned string.

The encoding of the returned string is proprietary to GIcon except in the following two cases

  • If icon is a GFileIcon, the returned string is a native path (such as /path/to/my icon.png) without escaping if the GFile for icon is a native file. If the file is not native, the returned string is the result of g_file_get_uri() (such as sftp://path/to/my%20icon.png).

  • If icon is a GThemedIcon with exactly one name and no fallbacks, the encoding is simply the name (such as network-server).

Available since: 2.20

Return value

Type: gchar*

An allocated NUL-terminated UTF8 string or NULL if icon can’t be serialized. Use g_free() to free.

The caller of the method takes ownership of the data, and is responsible for freeing it.
The return value can be NULL.
The value is a NUL terminated UTF-8 string.