The corner widget in a QTabWidget doesn't render at all.
I have tried to use QToolButton and QLabel.
Qt Code:
  1. {
  2. QLabel *label = new QLabel("foo");
  3. tw.setCornerWidget (label);
  4. }
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Simple enough, and I do see a little extra space at the beginning of the tab-list, but nothing is rendered there.