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List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    Re: QPushButton problem with KDE styles
From:       mosfet <mosfet () mandrakesoft ! com>
Date:       2001-03-20 22:35:33
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Okay, I'll do this.

Matthias Ettrich wrote:
> 
> On Tuesday 20 March 2001 17:34, Martijn Klingens wrote:
> > I was trying to create a QPushButton with a QIconSet and a caption and I
> > encountered a weird problem. Most KDE styles don't seem to support the icon
> > set. They just leave it end, so I end up with a pixmap-less button.
> >
> > I really like buttons with both icons and text, as they are often more
> > clear. Somehow the human eye seems to recognize icons faster than text, at
> > least for me, that is.
> >
> > It's not a bug in my application, a plain Qt app works well. After some
> > testing I found that _ALL_ Qt's styles support this feature, but only _ONE_
> > KDE style supports it.
> >
> > The following styles support a QIconSet in a QPushButton:
> > - default
> > - qtcde
> > - qtmotifplus
> > - qtsgi
> > - ksgistyle
> > - qtmotif
> > - qtplatinum
> > - qtwindows
> >
> > Quite a lot, but none of them are used very often. The ones that are, don't
> > support it:
> > - b3
> > - highcolor
> > - kstep
> > - system
> > - marble
> > - systemalt
> > None of these shows the icons.
> >
> > Is there a reason for this? If not, is it possible to change the styles to
> > support icon sets? If someone tells me how to do so, I'm willing to do this
> > myself. I haven't looked at the code yet though as I'm somehow afraid
> > there's a special reason for this particular (mis)behaviour.
> 
> There's no reason for that misbehaviour other than that the iconset support
> for QPushButton probably was added after the KDE styles have been written.
> 
> Thanks for bringing that up. The solution is simple: change the
> drawPushButton button functions in the KDE styles according to what the Qt
> styles do (have a look at qwindowsstyle.cpp, for example).
> 
> Matthias

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