Hiding icons in menu bar

pbe

Is there a way to hide the icons in the main menu bar (for example to be more compliant to the OS X way to show menus) in a QWidget (with QMainWindow) application?

Code like this will also remove the icons of the main toolbar.

    QList<QMenu*> lst;
    lst = ui->menuBar->findChildren<QMenu*>();
    foreach (QMenu* m, lst) {
        foreach (QAction* a, m->actions()) {
            a->setIcon(QIcon());
        }
    }

I'm asking for this issue: OS X: Icons in menus
Thank you for helping!

Chris Kawa

Assuming the icon sizes in the menu and on the toolbar are different you can add an empty pixmap for the size in the menu. Something like this:

QPixmap dummy (16,16); //or whatever the size of the menu icon is on OS X
dummy.fill(Qt::transparent);

QList<QMenu*> lst = ui->menuBar->findChildren<QMenu*>();
foreach (QMenu* m, lst) {
    foreach (QAction* a, m->actions()) {
        QIcon icon = a->icon();
        icon.addPixmap(dummy);
        a->setIcon(icon);
    }
}

pbe

@Chris-Kawa, thank you for your reply! Your solution caused all menu entries to have as width of a few pixels. :)

I found salvation in https://forum.qt.io/topic/24960/solved-osx-menu-icons/2

This code worked:

QApplication::instance()->setAttribute(Qt::AA_DontShowIconsInMenus, true);