Using item’s icon background/mask for circle/rectangle shapes.

Using item’s icon background/mask for circle/rectangle shapes.

Do you download and install pre-created iconset for circluar/reactangular app icons? Yes, it’s well designed, but it doesn’t provide my all-apps, right?

Using LL’s mask feature, we can have circular/rectangular( or hexagonal, or any shape you like) icons with app’s default one.

You might designe more sophiscated BG/mask image, however, just for enjoying this feature instantly, I uploaed circle/reactnagle images.

Adapting this doesn’t hurt your current desktop icons. If its not good, just set to “Default Icon”, that’s it.

How to adapt it

Goto Custumzing –> Current Desktop –> Items –> ICON

In menu, you see Background images and Mask menu in LAYERS  part. In those, you choose each bg/mask image for circle or rectangle.

AND, you also see Inner scale menu in same menu part. Increase it to some value greather than 100%. I used 150%.

I think you could understand why we scale up default icon’s size.

I didnt use overlay image, because I have no good idea, but you may.

Pros: we don’t need to install extra iconpack which has limited one.

Cons: we scale up default icon a liittle, and it may dequalify images.

Wonderful LL~

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One Commentto Using item’s icon background/mask for circle/rectangle shapes.

  1. Anonymous says:

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    Thanks for tip, Chris sledge I’ve just reduced inner scale, ye I think its advantage over design seems to be maintaining original icon image, however, my preference will be bigger size…



    Anyway, if LL users want to reduce inner size, then I suggest you elaborate BG image more sophiscatedly. Mine was not considerd of that case.

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