Export right icon (ricon) from Button to GDScript

[silkentrance]

The Button class features a right icon (ricon) that is used internally by the Godot editor plugin.

It would be nice for this to be a public feature so that we can implement similar functionality (collapsed/not collapsed) using GDScript as well without the need for us to reinvent the wheel here.

[volzhs]

would you share a screenshot to specify which one of editor plugin?

[silkentrance]

Well it is mostly in the Inspector

The section headers are basically tool buttons that feature the ricon for presenting a collapsed/non-collapsed state.

[jitspoe]

Looking at the button source, I only see one icon being drawn. Are you sure there's a right icon and not just another button/image placed there?

Related, though, I think it would be good to expose a left/right/center alignment option for the icons, like the text has: #11380

[silkentrance]

@jitspoe Yes, thanks for pointing this out. I mixed that up with the lineedit control. What I meant was the collapsible section stuff implemented into the editor and that we should have such a feature in the normal gui elements as well.

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(on a side note, the collapse/expand icon are drawn on the button by the inspector. You can already replicate this behavior with scripts)

[jitspoe]

I have a pull request here for centered and right-aligned icons: #37181