[PyKDE] menu icons

[Eli Carter]

Jim Bublitz wrote:
> On 04-Dec-02 Richard Jones wrote:
> 
>>On Thu, 5 Dec 2002 9:28 am, Jim Bublitz wrote:
>>
>>>On 04-Dec-02 Eli Carter wrote:
>>>
>>>>Ok, this is probably a dumb question, but...
>>>
> 
>>>>In kde3, I've noticed that there are some 'standard' icons
>>>>used in the menus for things like '&Quit'.
>>>>Is there a pre-made QIconSet or QPixmap to grab, or do I need
>>>>to find the file and load from it?
>>>
>>>On a SuSE system, they're most likely under
>>>/opt/kde3/share/icons/.
>>>I'd expect a fairly similar location (except rooted somewhere
>>>other than /opt perhaps) for other distributions.
>>
>  
> 
>>Don't the icons change according to the user's selected icon set?
>>How do we hook into that?
> 
> 
> I'm not really sure - KIconLoader or KIconTheme (or both)?
> Also, I believe for the toolbar, KStdAction finds the icons
> automatically if you use that to set up icons and menus. Obviously,
> custom actions will require custom icons - I think the app's
> directory under kde3/share is searched for those unless you specify
> a different path.
> 
> I haven't looked at this stuff in a while and couldn't find
> anything poking around quickly. I guess I'd start with the
> KStdAction and KAction docs and whatever UI design docs are on the
> KDE web site.
> 
> I wasn't sure if the original post was in regard to using KDE icons
> with PyQt or PyKDE.

Nor was I. ;)  It looks like I'm going to stick with PyQt at the 
moment... I'm trying to port a PyQt util from Redhat 7.2 to 7.3.  That 
means PyQt 2.3.1 to PyQt 3.0.3 (despite the package name of 3.1)... (and 
that version has a QInputDialog.getText bug (fixed in 3.2.4?) and no RH 
update *grumble*) ... and I was wanting to polish it up a bit with 
'standard' icons.

I think I'll just find where the icon lives and hard-code it for now.

Thanks for the feedback... I'll have to revisit it after I figure out 
how I want to deal with RedHat issues.

Thanks,

Eli
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