Icon masks are the ability to mask out the icon to fit a certain shape. I assume it's done with an extra alpha channel, but I have no idea.
The goal is to take arbitrary icons, and, when themed in an icon theme, change their shape. There's several tools to do it on Android / iOS. http://www.idownloadblog.com/2014/01/27/icon-masks/ The extra implementation complexity for this one wouldn't be worth it in my opinion. We would have to patch GTK+ and Shell to do masking on all app icon renders, which seems a bit much to me. We often don't know when icons are used in an "app launcher" context, either, so it would require application support too. All in all, it would be extremely tricky to get right, and I'm not sure the effect would look that good. Our icons are high-resolution renders and probably wouldn't look good with a flat cookie-cutter mask. On Mon, May 4, 2015 at 7:02 AM, Matthias Clasen <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 ? > _______________________________________________ > desktop-devel-list mailing list > [email protected] > https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list -- Jasper _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list [email protected] https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
