[Interest] so it turns out there *is* a way to get Qt5 apps to use a custom style automatically?

[Thiago Macieira]

On Friday 04 September 2015 12:19:24 René J.V. Bertin wrote:
> A bit of testing confirms that QT_PLUGIN_PATH is involved, but on my OS X
> machine the style plugin is already in the plugin path, so something else
> must be required to make it the default style.

It's another type of plugin called "platformthemes". It's provided specifically 
for platforms that are written with Qt because of a dependency reversal: Qt 
itself cannot integrate with it from inside the platform plugin as it hasn't 
been built yet.

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