Create monochromatic tray icon for OS X using QSystemTrayIcon

Question

OS X asks apps to use a 19x19px monochomatic PDF as a tray icon in order to adapt a system default color based on the user's theme.

Use a template image to represent a menu bar extra. In General system preferences, users can change the menu bar (and Dock) to a dark appearance. [...]

Can that be done using QSystemTrayIcon?

As far as I can see the underlying QIcon class does not support PDF.

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At the moment I am using a black SVG, which is displayed in pure black, causing a very unnatural appearance.

Default theme:

Dark theme:

Answer 1

Its known issue of QT which going to be fixed in version 5.6

Answer 2

This has been fixed in Qt 5.6. Just remember to set the isMask attribute on the QIcon like this: myQIcon.setIsMask(true) and then mySysTray.setIcon(myQIcon)