Some time after version 1.8.18-76-ge3e2325 (jan. 27th 2015) a change was made that makes QtCurve's GTk2 engine ignore a user's "no icons in menu" setting. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Configure KDE and/or GTk2 *not* to show icons in buttons 2. Select the QtCurve theme engine for GTk2 3. Open any application that has buttons Actual Results: buttons show icons Expected Results: buttons don't show icons I uploaded screenshots to bug 343778 . I'm actually not sure how I configured GTk2 not to show icons in buttons (I don't use a GTk-based desktop on OS X, of course), but none of the other themes I tried show these icons.
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