D6309: KIconThemes: some additional details about themes & icons on Mac & MSWin

[Thomas Friedrichsmeier]

tfry added a comment.


  It's difficult to explain a confusing situation, clearly, but I don't think you succeeded. AFAIU, there are //three// distinct approaches:
  a) embedded icons
  b) QIcon::setThemeSearchPaths()
  c) patched libs
  
  From the current wording I'm not sure, whether you do or do not want to hint at c) at all. For a) and b), I suggest the following wording:
  
    On other platforms such as Windows and Mac OS, icon themes are not regularly part of the system,
    though they are available through package management systems (like MacPorts, Fink and
    Cygwin).
    
    The deployment strategy for creating standalone applications on those operations systems is to either a) make sure the required icon theme is installed in a suitable (system) location, and use call QIcon::setThemeSearchPaths(), or b) to embed icons as a binary resource as follows:

REPOSITORY
  R302 KIconThemes

REVISION DETAIL
  https://phabricator.kde.org/D6309

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Cc: tfry, kde-mac, #frameworks
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