On Thursday December 24 2015 15:24:46 Diego Iastrubni wrote:
> yes, this works out of the box only in Linux. On Windows/Mac, you need to
> do a little more work. I will give parts of the solution in this email, if
> this is not completely clear do tell, and I will elaborate.
...
> Hope this helps
Yes it does, but I should apologise for not having reported back my findings
after posting my initial question.
It turns out, ahem, that I had not completely understood the exact nature of
the hicolor theme I was trying to use. I still don't fully understand it's
point if it doesn't have icons for standard dialog buttons, but that is exactly
what I was seeing. Once I hardcoded a different XDG-compatible icon theme from
the ones I have installed, I started getting icons.
So yes,
QIcon::setThemeSearchPath("/opt/local/share/icons");
QIcon::setThemeName("oxygen");
is indeed enough if KDE's Oxygen theme is installed in /opt/local/share/icons.
And that's exactly the use case I'm aiming for: not embedding a theme in
app-specific resources, but making them available via a central repository.
Re: memory and icon sizes: It appears that QIcon supports scalable icons on OS
X so probably on MS Windows too. That should help keeping the resource size
down (SVG usually compresses well too).
Regards,
René
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