[Qt-interest] How to get an icon associated with a certain filetype using Qt?

[Oliver.Knoll at comit.ch]

Nikos Chantziaras wrote on Wednesday, March 24, 2010 7:10 PM:

>> ...
>> And does it really have to be the icon of the application which can
>> deal with that MIME type? Or would "generic" icons be sufficient? 
> 
> That doesn't work that way.  There's only one icon used, no matter
> how many applications can open the file.  That's true on all

I think you missed my point: I wasn't exactly talking about *multiple* icons. I was suggesting to use a "generic" icon instead of the "real" icon from the *one* application that is associated with that file (identified by its MIME or extension or magic number or...).

The reason I was suggesting this is that there might be *multiple* applications which would be able to deal with say MIME image/jpeg, but only *one* application which is actually (directly) associated with with (by the file extension, for example). So given only the MIME it is actually impossible to determine that *one* application which is associated with a given file (when you double-click on it).

Cheers, Oliver
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