Do you use the designer, or do you code your gui manually?

[wysota]

Looks to me like you can only select one file or one resource.

There are other ways to assign pixmaps.

Hm.. Could you explain this? Right now I do it with only 4 lines of code, without using designer.

You can certainly implement your statusBar widget in Designer and then just assign it to the status bar using code. There is also a high chance you could use QStatusBar as the base for your form in Designer and then just replace the default bar with yours with a single line of code. If not, then it's just a matter of subclassing QStatusBar to introduce proper functionality.

In Designer, the central widget is a QWidget, which is the parent of my real main widget. This is all in Designer, but it's a bit of a waste to have a QWidget that doesn't really do anything.

That's not much of a waste, isn't it? I'm sure you can spare extra 100 bytes of memory. It's just a pitty you can't promote the default central widget to the proper widget. But maybe that's a suggestion for Trolltech to do it. Should take them not more than 15 minutes to do that.

True, but I don't think we're at that point yet. Right now, many more features could be added without sacrificing simplicity.

I'm sure there are features in Designer which you have not discovered yet

Edit: I just checked and confirmed it's possible to assign whatever icons you want from within Designer.