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  1. Qt
  2. QTBUG-77182

Export Wayland xdg_toplevel app ID to allow changing the icon of a Window

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    • Suggestion
    • Resolution: Unresolved
    • P2: Important
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    • 5.13.0
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    • KDE / kwin running with the Wayland backend.

    • Linux/Wayland

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      Since wayland-protocols 1.18, the set_app_id call got an amendment, which explicitly states that an app ID can be changed at runtime (nothing was stating the opposite before). And since it's a per xdg_toplevel property, I want to use it to change the application icon of my windows, based on the loaded document. I'll just quote my commit message from the wayland-protocols change:

      LibreOffice is one big binary with explicit brandings for different
      application modules. This is represented in X11 by a different
      WM_CLASS setting for a window. The WM_CLASS is changed based on the
      loaded document at runtime. As a result LibreOffice already offers
      multiple desktop files with different icons, StartupWMClass
      entries and application names.

      This amendment of the set_app_id request just explicitly specifies
      the use case to change a surfaces' app ID at runtime, so a compositor
      implementor is made aware of it. Just as the WM_CLASS, a change of
      the app ID should result in an update of the propertes of a surface
      depending on the app ID, like the window icon specified in the
      desktop file or a re-grouping of the surfaces in a task manager.

      The original LibreOffice bug report is here: https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=125934

      So now I would like to get the app_id exposed via a QWindow API, so I can set the icon for my toplevel window. I did a little brain storming in comment #3 of the LO bug report:

      "So thinking about this a bit more, maybe there should be an overload for QWindow::setIcon, which accepts the desktop file as a QString. IMHO it shouldn't accept a file name on other platforms as a convenience to load an icon. Or just allow a desktop file per QWindow? QIcon::fromTheme shouldn't work, as the icon is specified in the desktop file, not the theme. Maybe a QIcon::fromDesktopFile?"

      Or maybe it should just be a an API exposed for a Wayland client like QtWayland  already does for the compositor side?

      I can hack something up, but IMHO the code itself will probably be trivial, after we could agree on the interface to implement, as it already works for the QGuiApplication::desktopFileName API. There is also some hacky LO patch, which uses KWayland to call set_app_id, but it creates a 2nd XdgSurface, which is wrong, but correctly sets the windows icon.

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