Icon names vs. emblems

[Matthias Clasen]

On Thu, 2008-06-19 at 20:38 -0400, A. Walton wrote:

> 
> Both changes are small and smallish API changes may be required, but
> could both be ignored by existing applications without much trouble.
> Implementations would have to deal with how to carry around emblems
> (in our case, GIcon hides the nastiness, in others you could serialize
> the icons into a list, or use a list of strings, or do whatever else
> you feel like).

I can't specify a GIcon in a desktop file. And not in a glade file,
either.