A good solution might just be to let clients create a surface of new type 'icon'.
** Also affects: xorg-server (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Also affects: unity8 (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Tags added: xmir ** Also affects: mir (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Changed in: mir Importance: Undecided => Medium ** Changed in: mir (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided => Medium ** Changed in: xorg-server (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided => Medium ** Changed in: mir Status: New => Triaged ** Changed in: mir (Ubuntu) Status: New => Triaged ** Changed in: xorg-server (Ubuntu) Status: New => Triaged -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to unity8 in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1607199 Title: Add support for apps supplying their icons at run-time Status in Mir: Triaged Status in mir package in Ubuntu: Triaged Status in unity8 package in Ubuntu: New Status in xorg-server package in Ubuntu: Triaged Bug description: Add support for apps supplying their icons at run-time. X apps (and thus GTK apps) like to provide their app icons at run- time. We don't yet have the infrastructure to support this. But you can see the bitmaps by just running 'xprop' and clicking on a window. https://specifications.freedesktop.org/wm-spec/wm-spec- latest.html#idm140200472568384 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/mir/+bug/1607199/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages Post to : touch-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp