Question about goal of Windows/Mac frameworks

[Boudewijn Rempt]

On Thu, 22 Oct 2015, Christoph Cullmann wrote:

> Hi,
>
>> Impressive! And cool to see another project using the cmake externals
>> approach, I can copy a lot of it for Krita 3, I think. How are you
>> handling icons? Bundling the breeze theme, or putting the icons in resource
>> files?
> as I was lazy, I just compiled complete breeze into a binary rcc file like done in mac.txt: (search for the rcc calls)
>
> https://quickgit.kde.org/?p=kate.git&a=blob&h=275a28d36b132f0f5d3963ae40b451d264bae3a5&hb=1486c0e69df54e955e25223ff9d99d87751d2ba3&f=mac.txt

Ah, interesting... Yesterday, I did something similar, a little helper that copies the breeze icons that are in a list and puts them in a qrc file :-)

>
> Kate and KWrite call then this helper function after the initial QApplication construction:
>
> https://quickgit.kde.org/?p=kate.git&a=blob&h=75b9d81be88aac55a689ca99adc9a5e0ae0bb1d3&hb=1486c0e69df54e955e25223ff9d99d87751d2ba3&f=icons.h
>
> The nice thing: that helper is always compiled in, that means you can test it with a normal compiled Kate/KWrite.
>
> This for sure can be tuned to just pack the right breeze icons in that you need, but ATM even breeze lacks some icons
> we use in KWrite/Kate/KTextEditor (or perhaps even some other frameworks).
>
> All in all, the Mac and Windows port need no magic defines ATM, at least none I am aware off,
> and no non-native magic (if you ignore that we use cmake/python/perl for some stuff).

Very, very nice!

Boudewijn