Re: missing icons

[Ben Abbott]

On Oct 5, 2013, at 5:33 AM, c. wrote:

> On 5 Oct 2013, at 01:34, Ben Abbott <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
>> On Oct 4, 2013, at 4:49 PM, John W. Eaton wrote:
>> 
>>> There seem to be many missing icons in the GUI.  Can someone help me
>>> understand how Qt icons are supposed to work?  For example, in the
>>> terminal_dock_widget constructor in
>>> libgui/src/terminal-dock-widget.cc, we currently have
>>> 
>>> setWindowIcon (QIcon(":/actions/icons/logo.png"));
>>> 
>>> I think this is supposed to refer to the Octave logo.png file in
>>> libgnu/src/icons/logo.png, but the terminal dock widget doesn't
>>> display any icon for the window icon position on my system.
>>> 
>>> Similarly, the code that sets up the context menu that is defined for
>>> the terminal window in QTerminal.h appears to add icons to the menu
>>> but those are also not showing up on my system.
>>> 
>>> Is it just me, or is this not working properly for others as well?
>>> 
>>> What does /actions/ mean in the name that is passed to QIcon?
>>> 
>>> jwe
>> 
>> I don't understand how the icons work, but on MacOSX all the application's 
>> icons work for me, but the icon on the dock looks to be defaulting to a 
>> shell script icon.  I've attached a png.
>> 
>> Ben
> 
> According to this page:
> 
> http://qt-project.org/doc/qt-4.8/appicon.html
> 
> application icons must be treated by a "platform-dependent technique" 
> to have them show correctly on OSX.
> 
> That page is for Qt 4.8 which is what I have:
> 
> port list installed and qt*
> qt4-mac                        @4.8.5          aqua/qt4-mac
> 
> I can't find a similar page for Qt 5 ...
> 
> c.

Ok. That essentially means we'll have to construct a MacOSX app directory 
structure and place the icon in the proper place.  In the example at the link 
below the application icon would be MyApp.app/Contents/Resources/MyApp.icns

        https://trac.lcsr.jhu.edu/cisst/wiki/MacAppBundles

Ben