Qtcreator ignores xfce icon theme

I think the title pretty much covers it.  I've gone through the wiki page Uniform Look for QT and GTK Applications and it has a lot of great information for how to get themes without icons working in qt applications, but there doesn't seem to be much about how to get the icon themes over.  I tried using the oxygen, faenza, and elementary icon themes but none of them seem to get picked up.  Also qtconfig seems to have a bit of a mind of its own when it comes to theme selection, and lacks an option for picking an icon theme.  Any help would be greatly appreciated, this issue has been bugging me for weeks!

Well, I came up with a very ugly hack for doing this.  I really hope someone has a better solution.  Basically I figured out that qtcreator is always pulling from the gnome icons, and if it can't do that then it looks like it generates the icons itself.  So...I just renamed the gnome icon folder to something else and made a sym link to the icons I wanted to use instead.  So if for example you wanted to use Faenza-Dark, you would do:
cd /usr/share/icons
mv gnome gnome_
ln -s Faenza-Dark gnome
Of course this is probably going to break as soon as the gnome icons get updated so I can't say I'm too wild about it, but it does give the desired behavior.

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