icon-masking in gnome

[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 ?