Comment 19 for bug 156697

I think the current situation shows that there is no issue with python causing a crash. I suspect, based upon comments in the previous version of the code that python ref's the pixbuf therefore there is no issue. If I am wrong on the python behaviour please correct me :-)

I would be extremely opposed to changing the implementation before 0.2.1 and thus causing memory leaks to occur. This is stable as is. Though I think it's fine to mark the interface as deprecated. Though it seems to be Neil added this interface after the fact to help with applet devs and memory management issues. At this point I think it's not broken so don't fix it.

And yes there are C applets that us set_temp_icon.