Bug#908705: g_icon_to_string output includes some garbage prefix

[Philip Withnall]

On Wed, 2018-09-12 at 22:32 +0200, Eduard Bloch wrote:
> Package: libglib2.0-0
> Version: 2.58.0-3
> Severity: important
> 
> Hi,
> 
> one of the last releases in the last couple of weeks has broken the
> g_icon_to_string function. Previously, it did exactly what
> https://developer.gnome.org/gio/stable/GIcon.html#g-icon-to-string
> said
> and returned a proper short name or absolute path.
> 
> Now, it returns some nonsense, after this pattern:
> . GThemedIcon mpv mpv-symbolic
> 
> That's crap. For the example above,
> /usr/share/applications/mpv.desktop
> contains:
> Icon=mpv
> 
> And mpv is what I expect (following documentation)
> 
> Repro:
> 
> Run icewm-menu-fdo (from icewm-common package) and see a lot of those
> strings there except of the plain icon name.

See https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/glib/issues/1513.

Philip
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