App-installed icons on Windows

Albert Vaca albertvaka at gmail.com
Mon Dec 5 11:07:14 UTC 2016


The problem is Breeze already installs an rcc file (generated from a qrc).
I could generate a new one for app icons, but we can't load both with the
current code in KIconThemes.

On Mon, Dec 5, 2016 at 9:23 AM, Jasem Mutlaq <mutlaqja at ikarustech.com>
wrote:

> We use the .qrc file to store ALL the icons we use since there can
> sometimes be trouble locating them across different platforms (OSX &
> Windows). This is the most reliable way to ensure you have access to your
> icons.
>
> Regards,
> Jasem
>
>
> On Mon, Dec 5, 2016 at 10:43 AM, Hannah von Reth <vonreth at kde.org> wrote:
>
>> For application specific Icons you best place them in a qrc.
>> But I'm not sure what the best practice is here, but I think KStars is
>> already doing this and Kate maybe too.
>>
>> Kind regards,
>>
>> Hannah
>>
>> ------------------------------
>> From: albertvaka at gmail.com
>> Date: Sat, 3 Dec 2016 11:03:37 +0100
>> Subject: App-installed icons on Windows
>> To: kde-windows at kde.org
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> We have in place a solution to load the Breeze icon theme from
>> "icontheme.rcc" on Windows. But how can we do to also use app-installed
>> icons? Can we just register two rcc files? Should we change the code to
>> load every *.rcc file in the data dir, so apps can provide their own,
>> instead of limiting it to a single one?
>>
>> Albert
>>
>
>
>
> --
> Best Regards,
> Jasem Mutlaq
>
>
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