[Interest] icons in menus

[Rutledge Shawn]

On 14 Sep 2015, at 12:05, Till Oliver Knoll <till.oliver.knoll at gmail.com> wrote:

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>> Am 13.09.2015 um 16:50 schrieb René J.V. Bertin <rjvbertin at gmail.com>:
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>> Hi,
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>> Is it to be expected that I have icons in the items of the global menubar of the Assistant, Designer and Linguist apps, using the Qt 5.5.0 Cocoa build?
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> No.
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> Applications on OS X don't have icons in the menu - as per Apple HIG.
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> Also refer to http://doc.qt.io/qt-5/qt.html#ApplicationAttribute-enum
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> (Not sure whether it is necessary to explicitly set 
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> Qt::AA_DontShowIconsInMenus
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> /before/ instantiating QApplication or whether that's set by default on OS X)

It’s the default.  Qt uses native menus on OS X (rendering the menubar ourselves is not an option), and I don’t think they can display icons at all.