Icon.toString_

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 [gio.icon.Icon.newForString] 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 [gio.file.File.getUri] (such as sftp://path/to/my20icon.png).

• If icon is a #GThemedIcon with exactly one name and no fallbacks,

the encoding is simply the name (such as network-server).