No icon on the gnome desktop using geode driver

[Michel Dänzer]

On Fri, 2010-04-09 at 14:55 +0800, Huang, FrankR wrote: 
> 
>             Right now, we are debugging the geode driver. In three
> BTS, the big issue is the “no icon” bug on the desktop. 
> 
>             I have written some simple Xlib programs trying  to
> reproduce this issue because it does not depend on the window manager.
> That will be more simple to fix on the bug root. But all these
> programs failed to reproduce.
> 
>             Two Xlib application to demonstrate:
> 
>             One is displaying an application icon via the Window
> manager using XCreateBitmapFromData() function. This icon can display
> on the application window correctly.
> 
>             The other is an application using libxpm. It get the
> pixmap from a file using the function XpmReadFileToPixmap(). This icon
> can also display in the application.
> 
>             Another example is the eog program under gnome. The button
> icon can not be displayed in the program. It is quite similar with our
> bug. But this program is written in GTK, no Xlib.
> 
>             So is there some people know the mechanism of the GNOME to
> display the icon? I found that these files are png file format. Or any
> program can reproduce this using Xlib??
> 
>             I attached a file to demonstrate this bug.

I followed up to https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=27243 .


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