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There could be a menu-action in KDevelop to insert code for a KIcon.
You click on the action, see the icon-chooser, select an icon, at cursor-position such code will be inserted:

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KIcon("icon-id")

Maybe it's possible to implement this feature language-independent. For example in Ruby it should be:

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KDE::Icon.new('icon-id')

The User

1. Your C++ code is wrong because KIcon has value semantics. Just write KIcon("icon-id").

2. I vote no because this opens Pandora's box of interface clutter: Why only KIcon? I want buttons for QLatin1String, QRectF, KXMLGUIClient, Plasma::PopupApplet, Kolf::GameUIPageWidget, ... You know what I mean?

I think it can be implemented through using features plugins to KDevelop. For example, there are plugin for Qt Designer integration - if it is possibility to choose icons from resource browser or whatever else, why not use it as context dependent? I'm not using KDE framework, but think that it has similar behaviour. I agreed that it isn't a reason to implement such actions for QLatin1String, QRectF and so, but for Resource Browser-like features it can be implemented.

You can insert a text or a rect easily. But it's complicate to search the name of the KIcon. There's a menu to select an icon and it would be very useful.

Please move it to implemented, I have commmited a KTextEditor-plugin some time ago.