diff --git a/src/tools/icons/GenericDocumentIcon.iconset/readme.txt b/src/tools/icons/GenericDocumentIcon.iconset/readme.txt
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-This directory needs to contain the files
-
- icon_128x128.png
- icon_128x128@2x.png
- icon_16x16.png
- icon_16x16@2x.png
- icon_256x256.png
- icon_256x256@2x.png
- icon_32x32.png
- icon_32x32@2x.png
- icon_512x512.png
- icon_512x512@2x.png
-
-On OSX, they are obtainable by executing the following command:
-iconutil -c iconset /System/Library/CoreServices/CoreTypes.bundle/Contents/Resources/GenericDocumentIcon.icns
diff --git a/src/tools/icons/applicationicons.svg b/src/tools/icons/applicationicons.svg
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-
-
-
-
diff --git a/src/tools/icons/documenttypeicons.svg b/src/tools/icons/documenttypeicons.svg
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--- a/src/tools/icons/documenttypeicons.svg
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-
-
-
-
diff --git a/src/tools/icons/exportapplicationicons.sh b/src/tools/icons/exportapplicationicons.sh
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-#!/bin/sh
-
-# Copyright (C) 2016 The Qt Company Ltd.
-# SPDX-License-Identifier: LicenseRef-Qt-Commercial OR GPL-3.0-only WITH Qt-GPL-exception-1.0
-
-# This script creates several application icon files by using
-# Inkscape to rasterize .svg items to .png, adding shadows via
-# imagemagick, creating .ico files via imagemagick and .icns
-# files via iconutil (OSX only).
-
-# optipng is required by this script
-if ! hash optipng 2>/dev/null; then
- echo "optipng was not found in PATH" >&2
- exit 1
-fi
-
-# Imagemagick convert is required by this script
-if ! hash convert 2>/dev/null; then
- echo "Imagemagick convert was not found in PATH" >&2
- exit 1
-fi
-
-cd `dirname $0`
-
-applicationNames="qtcreator designer linguist assistant qdbusviewer qmlviewer"
-applicationIconDimensions="16:0 24:0 32:1 48:1 64:1 128:2 256:3 512:7 1024:15"
-
-# Creating the list of svg IDs to export
-for applicationName in $applicationNames;\
-do
- for applicationIconDimension in $applicationIconDimensions;\
- do
- applicationIconSize=`echo $applicationIconDimension | awk -F: '{ print $1 }'`
- iconIDs="${iconIDs} ${applicationName}_icon_${applicationIconSize}x${applicationIconSize}"
- done
-done
-
-# Copying the logos for Qt Creator's sources. Without shadows!
-creatorLogoDir="logo"
-rm -rf $creatorLogoDir
-mkdir $creatorLogoDir
-for uiFileIconSize in 16 24 32 48 64 128 256 512;\
-do
- creatorLogoSource="qtcreator_icon_${uiFileIconSize}x${uiFileIconSize}.png"
- creatorLogoTargetDir="${creatorLogoDir}/${uiFileIconSize}"
- creatorLogoTarget="${creatorLogoTargetDir}/QtProject-qtcreator.png"
- optipng $creatorLogoSource -o 7 -strip all
- mkdir $creatorLogoTargetDir
- cp $creatorLogoSource $creatorLogoTarget
-done
-
-# Adding the shadows to the .png files
-for applicationName in $applicationNames;\
-do
- for applicationIconDimension in $applicationIconDimensions;\
- do
- iconSize=`echo $applicationIconDimension | awk -F: '{ print $1 }'`
- shadowSize=`echo $applicationIconDimension | awk -F: '{ print $2 }'`
- iconFile=${applicationName}_icon_${iconSize}x${iconSize}.png
- if [ "$shadowSize" != "0" ]
- then
- convert -page ${iconSize}x${iconSize} ${iconFile} \( +clone -background black -shadow 25x1+0+0 \) +swap -background none -flatten ${iconFile}
- convert -page ${iconSize}x${iconSize} ${iconFile} \( +clone -background black -shadow 40x${shadowSize}+0+${shadowSize} \) +swap -background none -flatten ${iconFile}
- fi
- done
-done
-
-# Creating the .ico files
-iconSizes="256 128 64 48 32 24 16"
-for applicationName in $applicationNames;\
-do
- icoFiles=""
- for iconSize in $iconSizes;\
- do
- icoFiles="$icoFiles ${applicationName}_icon_${iconSize}x${iconSize}.png"
- done
- convert ${icoFiles} ${applicationName}.ico
-done
-
-# Optimizing the .pngs
-for iconID in $iconIDs;\
-do
- optipng "${iconID}.png" -o 7 -strip all
-done
-
-# Preparing application .iconsets for the conversion to .icns
-for applicationName in $applicationNames;\
-do
- inconsetName=${applicationName}.iconset
- rm -rf $inconsetName
- mkdir $inconsetName
- cp ${applicationName}_icon_16x16.png ${inconsetName}/icon_16x16.png
- cp ${applicationName}_icon_32x32.png ${inconsetName}/icon_32x32.png
- cp ${applicationName}_icon_128x128.png ${inconsetName}/icon_128x128.png
- cp ${applicationName}_icon_256x256.png ${inconsetName}/icon_256x256.png
- cp ${applicationName}_icon_512x512.png ${inconsetName}/icon_512x512.png
- cp ${applicationName}_icon_32x32.png ${inconsetName}/icon_16x16@2x.png
- cp ${applicationName}_icon_64x64.png ${inconsetName}/icon_32x32@2x.png
- cp ${applicationName}_icon_256x256.png ${inconsetName}/icon_128x128@2x.png
- cp ${applicationName}_icon_512x512.png ${inconsetName}/icon_256x256@2x.png
- cp ${applicationName}_icon_1024x1024.png ${inconsetName}/icon_512x512@2x.png
-done
diff --git a/src/tools/icons/exportdocumenttypeicons.sh b/src/tools/icons/exportdocumenttypeicons.sh
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-#!/bin/sh
-
-# Copyright (C) 2016 The Qt Company Ltd.
-# SPDX-License-Identifier: LicenseRef-Qt-Commercial OR GPL-3.0-only WITH Qt-GPL-exception-1.0
-
-# optipng is required by this script
-if ! hash optipng 2>/dev/null; then
- echo "optipng was not found in PATH" >&2
- exit 1
-fi
-
-cd `dirname $0`
-
-# Adding the icons for the OSX document type icon for .ui files
-for documentTypeName in "uifile" "qtcreator-project";\
-do
- inconsetName=${documentTypeName}.iconset
- rm -rf $inconsetName
- mkdir $inconsetName
- for iconSize in 16 32 128 256 512;\
- do
- iconShortID="icon_${iconSize}x${iconSize}"
- iconLongID="${documentTypeName}_${iconShortID}"
- for sizeVariation in "" "@2x";\
- do
- iconSourcePng="${iconLongID}${sizeVariation}.png"
- iconTargetPng="${inconsetName}/${iconShortID}${sizeVariation}.png"
- optipng $iconSourcePng -o 7 -strip all
- cp $iconSourcePng $iconTargetPng
- done
- done
-done