No way to create Maemo app icon directly using Qt Creator

I have written my app and tested it on my N900 using Qt Creator. It works well and handles the build and .deb packaging etc for me, however I have spent hours trawling the web trying to find out how to add an app icon so that I can add a desktop shortcut. All I can find is the packing wiki which starts off using MADDE, installing a scratchbox etc. This is way more complicated that it should be. Ideally it should be a simple matter of adding the path to the icon in the project file and Qt Creator and the build process should handle the rest.