RCC for icons - update: Re: Icons installed by apps

[Jaroslaw Staniek]

Hi, published a patch for Kexi with rough explanation and list of features:

https://phabricator.kde.org/D1092



On 7 March 2016 at 17:52, Jaroslaw Staniek <staniek at kde.org> wrote:

>
> On 7 March 2016 at 17:29, Jaroslaw Staniek <staniek at kde.org> wrote:
>
>>
>> On 7 March 2016 at 13:05, Kåre Särs <kare.sars at iki.fi> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> On Monday, March 07, 2016 12:41:52 PM Jaroslaw Staniek wrote:
>>> > >
>>> > > ​Thanks, it works on Windows (no platform theme).
>>> > > ​​How to make it work on Linux too (KF5 5.19.0, Qt 5.5.1), i.e. I'd
>>> like
>>> > > to have only used icons from the .rcc regardless of availability of
>>> > > FrameworkIntegrationPlugin.so KDEPlatformTheme.so?
>>> > > ​
>>> > > We're talking about this code:​
>>> > >
>>> > > ​https://quickgit.kde.org/?p=kate.git&a=blob&f=icons.h​​​
>>> > >
>>> > > As soon as QResource::registerResource("breeze.rcc") is called,
>>> ":/icons"
>>> > > is
>>> > > ​appended to the theme search path (checked using
>>> > > QIcon::themeSearchPaths()).
>>> > >
>>> > > There's a line QIcon::setThemeSearchPaths(QStringList() <<
>>> > > QStringLiteral(":/icons")).
>>> > >
>>> > > - When I have this line enabled and I have no
>>> > > FrameworkIntegrationPlugin.so & KDEPlatformTheme.so installed, no
>>> icons
>>> > > are
>>> > > available at all
>>>
>>> Notice that the setThemeSearchPaths() call _replaces_ any previous search
>>> paths. Is this your problem?
>>>
>>>
>>>
>> ​No.. but I got it sorted out after reading QIconTheme::QIconTheme and
>> alike and re-reading the "The name should correspond to a directory name in
>> the themeSearchPath() containing an index.theme file describing it's
>> contents" sentence of  QIcon::setThemeName docs :)
>>
>
>
> ​PS: If someone wants to experiment (I hear it's the case for KDevelop),
> here is the
> Breeze icons resource: http://kexi-project.org/tmp/breeze.rcc.bz2
>
> For reference, Kexi icons: http://kexi-project.org/tmp/kexi_breeze.rcc.bz2
> And recent commit that supports it all on Linux and Windows:
> https://quickgit.kde.org/?p=scratch%2Fstaniek%2Fkexi3.git
>
>

-- 
regards, Jaroslaw Staniek

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