QTabWidget tabs on left with horizontal text + icon?

[pmh4514]

Can somebody provide an example of how I can have a QTabWidget with tabs on the left but have the icon and text still render horizontally?

[pmh4514]

After some digging I was able to find a port of the "FancyTabWidget" that Qt Creator uses, here:
http://hackersome.com/p/pcogermany/FancyTabBar

It required slight tweaking to replace QWindowStyle with QCommonStyle, but otherwise works nice.

I'd still be interested to learn the right way to extend the QTabWidget to force the icons to rotate though.