Plasma Components Question

[Sebastian Kügler]

Hi Fernando,

On Thursday, January 12, 2012 06:36:29 Lasath Fernando wrote:
> I've been using Plasma Components 4.8 for a new plasmoid in
> telepathy-kde, and I have a question regarding the Button (or
> ToolButton) component.
> From what I've seen so far, it only has a property to set the source
> for the icon.
> I need a way to set the icon directly as a (Q|K)Icon, as the only way
> to get the icon for a user's current presence is through the
> KTp::Presence::icon() method, which returns a KIcon.
> So far, I've been using a workaround to get icon sources that causes a
> lot of ugly and duplicate code in our libraries, and have been told to
> find a way to avoid.
> 
> So, is there something I'm missing?

We've put a few of those why-the-hack-didn't-qdeclarative-bind-those types 
into qtextracomponents, which is in kde-runtime.

Try

import org.kde.qtextracomponents 0.1

QIconItem {
	icon: QIcon("edit-paste")
}

Cheers,
-- 
sebas

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