From kde-core-devel  Sat Aug 14 13:31:30 1999
From: Stephan Kulow <coolo () caldera ! de>
Date: Sat, 14 Aug 1999 13:31:30 +0000
To: kde-core-devel
Subject: Re: icon with filename
X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kde-core-devel&m=93463781129685

"Dirk A. Mueller" wrote:
> 
> Stephan Kulow <coolo@caldera.de> wrote:
> 
> >> if the filename is an absolute pathname, use ICON()
> > Why would you want ICON for an absolute pathname?
> 
> Well... QPixmap constructor would be too easy ;)
> 
> > BTW: Many contacted me and told me that ICON doesn't load icons,
> > but only toolbar icons. That's right
> 
> not in KDE_1_1_BRANCH..
> 
> > so shouldn't we rename it to Toolbar()?
> 
> toolbarIcon()
> 
> > ICON is very misleading!
> 
> and ugly (who needs upper case?)
> 
> > while beeing at it. ICON is defined in kiconloader.h, but requires
> > kglobal.h to work, which is bad.
> 
> well, didn't you want to fix that some while ago? Or is there no easy
> way?
> 
toolbarIcon is a bit long for my taste. ICON is written this way as it's
a macro.

Greetings, Stephan

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