There's no proper replacement for KIcon

[Kevin Ottens]

On Thursday 04 September 2014 11:36:38 Martin Klapetek wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 3, 2014 at 10:10 PM, Eike Hein <hein at kde.org> wrote:
> > On 09/03/2014 10:07 PM, Nicolás Alvarez wrote:
> >> So if I'm not in a Plasma session I get no icons?
> > 
> > If you're not in a Plasma session you don't get the Plasma
> > platform plugin. Other platform plugins can drive this as
> > they prefer.
> 
> Isn't that the task of the given platform plugin? Eg. if I run my app in
> Gnome, there should be a Gnome plugin which provides its own icon plugin
> and loads Gnome icons (well in an ideal world, anyway) and thus making the
> app actually look more "integrated"...in other words, shouldn't this
> problem be moved there?

Spot on. And such a plugin is in fact shipped with Qt, but for some reason 
isn't loaded in Albert's case. That awfully sounds like a bug to me, hence why 
my line of argument is that it should be investigated and fixed.
 
Regards.
-- 
Kévin Ottens, http://ervin.ipsquad.net

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