QT theme search paths limited on Windows

[Christoph Cullmann]

Hi,

I think it is better to just bundle the custom items in a resource file,
that will work on all operating systems, even on Mac, and has no real drawbacks.

Greetings
Christoph

----- Am 30. Jun 2016 um 0:23 schrieb Jasem Mutlaq mutlaqja at ikarustech.com:

> Hello,
> 
> KStars has problems loading custom icons that were installed into the "hicolor"
> theme under Windows. On Linux, it works perfectly fine. Upon checking
> QIcon::themeSearchPaths(), turns out on LInux it's the following:
> 
> Theme search path ("/usr/share/icons", "/usr/share/pixmaps", ":/icons")
> 
> But on Windows, it's only ":/icons"
> 
> I solved by adding the theme names manually under Windows:
> 
> QStringList searchPaths = QIcon::themeSearchPaths();
> foreach(QString path,
> QStandardPaths::standardLocations(QStandardPaths::GenericDataLocation))
> searchPaths << QString("%1/%2").arg(path).arg("icons");
> QIcon::setThemeSearchPaths(searchPaths);
> 
> After that, the icons under "hicolor" loaded up fine. Perhaps Qt should be
> patched to add those paths so that all KDE applications can access them without
> the above hack?
> 
> --
> Best Regards,
> Jasem Mutlaq
> 
> 
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