diff -r 41300fa6a67c -r f7bc934e204c src/gui/kernel/qaction.cpp
--- a/src/gui/kernel/qaction.cpp	Tue Feb 02 00:43:10 2010 +0200
+++ b/src/gui/kernel/qaction.cpp	Wed Mar 31 11:06:36 2010 +0300
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 /****************************************************************************
 **
-** Copyright (C) 2009 Nokia Corporation and/or its subsidiary(-ies).
+** Copyright (C) 2010 Nokia Corporation and/or its subsidiary(-ies).
 ** All rights reserved.
 ** Contact: Nokia Corporation (qt-info@nokia.com)
 **
@@ -715,6 +715,10 @@
     it is displayed to the left of the menu text. There is no default
     icon.
 
+    On Symbian the icons which are passed to softkeys, i.e. to actions with
+    softkey role, need to have pixmap alpha channel correctly set otherwise
+    drawing artifacts will appear when softkey is pressed down.
+
     If a null icon (QIcon::isNull() is passed into this function,
     the icon of the action is cleared.
 */