Generates a textual representation of icon that can be used for
serialization such as when passing icon to a different process or
saving it to persistent storage. Use g_icon_new_for_string() to
get icon back from the returned string.
The encoding of the returned string is proprietary to GIcon except
in the following two cases
If icon is a GFileIcon, the returned string is a native path
(such as /path/to/my icon.png) without escaping
if the GFile for icon is a native file. If the file is not
native, the returned string is the result of g_file_get_uri()
(such as sftp://path/to/my%20icon.png).
If icon is a GThemedIcon with exactly one name, the encoding is
simply the name (such as network-server).
Virtual: to_tokens
Since 2.20
Generates a textual representation of icon that can be used for serialization such as when passing icon to a different process or saving it to persistent storage. Use g_icon_new_for_string() to get icon back from the returned string. The encoding of the returned string is proprietary to GIcon except in the following two cases If icon is a GFileIcon, the returned string is a native path (such as /path/to/my icon.png) without escaping if the GFile for icon is a native file. If the file is not native, the returned string is the result of g_file_get_uri() (such as sftp://path/to/my%20icon.png). If icon is a GThemedIcon with exactly one name, the encoding is simply the name (such as network-server). Virtual: to_tokens Since 2.20