[Development] How to override the default QPlatformTheme?

PCMan pcman.tw at gmail.com
Tue Jun 24 19:43:45 CEST 2014


Sorry,
I found the answer myself.
I overlooked that when I read the source code of Qt5.
By using QT_QPA_PLATFORMTHEME I can specify the platform theme name.
Thanks!

On Wed, Jun 25, 2014 at 1:14 AM, PCMan <pcman.tw at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello,
> With Qt4, we can load our own custom platform plugin to do things we want.
> This does not seem to be as easy in Qt 5.
> We want to override the default QPlatformTheme provided by Qt with our
> own plugin.
> However, this part is hard-coded in Qt.
> When XCB platform is used, Qt 5 loads QXcbIntegration plugin.
> Then, a list of available platform themes is retriieved using
> themeNames(), which in turns is redirected to
> QGenericUnixThemes::themeNames().
> It hard coded checks for KDE, and if KDE is not in use, Qt forced the
> loading of gtk theme plugin.
> Only when the preceding plugins all fail, it tries "DESKTOP_SESSION"
> environment variable.
> There does not seem to be a way to override this behavior.
> Is it possible to force loading of my own platforn theme by using a
> QT_QPA_XXX environment variable?
>
> I know that we can develop our own platform integration plugin, but
> that's too much work.
> We just want to customize the platform theme part so building a new
> QPlatformIntegration will be overkill.
>
> Thank you very much.



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