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Allison Karlitskaya authored
Add support for serialising a GIcon to a GVariant and deserialising the result back to a GIcon. This solves a number of problems suffered by the existing to_string() API, primarily these: - not forcing the icon to be a utf8 string means that we can efficiently encode a PNG (ie: just give the array of bytes) - there is no need to ensure that proper types are loaded before using the deserialisation interface. 'Foreign' icon types will probably emit a serialised format the deserialises to a GBytesIcon. We additionally clearly document what is required for being a consumer or implementation of #GIcon. Further patches will be required to GdkPixbuf and GVfsIcon to bring their implementations in line with the new rules (essentially: introduce implementations of the new serialize() API). https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=688820
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