GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 511919
GtkStatusIcon needs a way to set its icon from a Cairo surface.
Last modified: 2014-08-30 05:20:33 UTC
After a discussion in #gtk+ where someone wanted to draw to the icon of a GtkStatusIcon and can't because there is no way to get at the thing's GdkWindow, Carl Worth suggested the following API addition: gtk_status_icon_new_from_cairo_surface() AfC
GtkStatusIcon has been deprecated