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);