On Tuesday, December 18, 2012 10:35:04 Alan Alpert wrote:
> > But I still think the action needs a name, which can be used by the
> > image provider to find the icon.  (This is independent of whether the
> > image provider uses files or resources; the icon will be found by name
> > either way.)  Maybe we can reuse objectName for that.  So the action
> > is just called "open" but the image provider can go looking for
> > icon-open-action.png or something, using its own naming convention.
> > The point of that is to avoid repeating yourself in QML.
> 
> objectName has its uses, don't just give it an extra meaning. I see no
> problem with adding a separate actionName or name property if that's
> helpful, despite the presence of objectName.

I agree. In particular, using objectName for both the name of the action and 
automatically for part of the name of the icon seems like a bad idea to me.

Thanks,

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