icon-masking in gnome

[Rudra Banerjee]

Hi,
I am a longtime fedora and gnome enduser.
I want to propose icon masking facility for unthemed desktop icon, as
it is very common in android.

I talked to such a icon developer (Numix) and I was told that this is
not supported in linux.
Is there any work on this?
Regards,
RudraB

[Matthias Clasen]

On Sat, 2015-05-02 at 19:46 +0100, Rudra Banerjee wrote:
> Hi,
> I am a longtime fedora and gnome enduser.
> I want to propose icon masking facility for unthemed desktop icon, as
> it is very common in android.
>
> I talked to such a icon developer (Numix) and I was told that this is
> not supported in linux.
> Is there any work on this?
> Regards,
> RudraB

Could you explain what you mean by icon masking, and why it would be
useful to have ?

[Rudra Banerjee]

Hi Matthias,Thanks for your reply.If you look at gnome-looks icons, there are lot of icon themes based on a preferred geometry (like circular, rounded-square etc. I personally use https://github.com/numixproject/numix-icon-theme-circle).As any themed icons-sets, those icons only work with prebuilt icons (those provided by the upstream). If I use a software that is not themed by the upstream, it looks out of place. I have added my screen-shot for an example, with nedit  not themed (see http://picpaste.com/Screenshot_from_2015-05-05_13-34-03-cZkzdwST.png )In android system, it is very common that if icons are unthemed, then it will get a layer (masking) ...so all icons have same shape.
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> Date: Mon, 4 May 2015 10:02:48 -0400
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> On Sat, 2015-05-02 at 19:46 +0100, Rudra Banerjee wrote:
> > Hi,
> > I am a longtime fedora and gnome enduser.
> > I want to propose icon masking facility for unthemed desktop icon, as
> > it is very common in android.
> >
> > I talked to such a icon developer (Numix) and I was told that this is
> > not supported in linux.
> > Is there any work on this?
> > Regards,
> > RudraB
>
> Could you explain what you mean by icon masking, and why it would be
> useful to have ?
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