IconTheme.loadIcon

Looks up an icon in an icon theme, scales it to the given size and renders it into a pixbuf. This is a convenience function; if more details about the icon are needed, use gtk.icon_theme.IconTheme.lookupIcon followed by gtk.icon_info.IconInfo.loadIcon.

Note that you probably want to listen for icon theme changes and update the icon. This is usually done by connecting to the GtkWidget::style-set signal. If for some reason you do not want to update the icon when the icon theme changes, you should consider using gdkpixbuf.pixbuf.Pixbuf.copy to make a private copy of the pixbuf returned by this function. Otherwise GTK+ may need to keep the old icon theme loaded, which would be a waste of memory.

Parameters

iconName string

the name of the icon to lookup

size int

the desired icon size. The resulting icon may not be exactly this size; see gtk.icon_info.IconInfo.loadIcon.

flags gtk.types.IconLookupFlags

flags modifying the behavior of the icon lookup

Return Value

Type: gdkpixbuf.pixbuf.Pixbuf

the rendered icon; this may be a newly created icon or a new reference to an internal icon, so you must not modify the icon. Use gobject.object.ObjectWrap.unref to release your reference to the icon. null if the icon isn’t found.

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