a newly created icon or a new reference to an internal icon, so you must not modify the icon. Use [gobject.object.ObjectWrap.unref] to release your reference to the icon. null if the icon isn’t found.
IconTheme.loadIcon
gdkpixbuf.pixbuf.Pixbuf loadIcon(string iconName, int size, gtk.types.IconLookupFlags flags)Looks up an icon in an icon theme, scales it to the given size and renders it into a pixbuf. This is a convenience function; if more details about the icon are needed, use [gtk.icon_theme.IconTheme.lookupIcon] followed by [gtk.icon_info.IconInfo.loadIcon].
Note that you probably want to listen for icon theme changes and update the icon. This is usually done by connecting to the GtkWidget::style-set signal. If for some reason you do not want to update the icon when the icon theme changes, you should consider using [gdkpixbuf.pixbuf.Pixbuf.copy] to make a private copy of the pixbuf returned by this function. Otherwise GTK+ may need to keep the old icon theme loaded, which would be a waste of memory.
Parameters
iconName | the name of the icon to lookup |
size | the desired icon size. The resulting icon may not be exactly this size; see [gtk.icon_info.IconInfo.loadIcon]. |
flags | flags modifying the behavior of the icon lookup |
Returns
the rendered icon; this may be
Throws
[ErrorWrap]