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dkanada / frost

Icon Pack for Android Devices
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Blank Icon #160

Open subraizada3 opened 5 years ago

subraizada3 commented 5 years ago

Hi,

Some launchers (ZimLx for example) allow overriding the icon of a specific app to another icon in the icon pack. If Frost included a 'blank' icon, it would allow the user to place an invisible shortcut onto the home screen, by placing an app there and changing the icon to the blank icon. This allows the wallpaper to remain unobscured.

A blank SVG could be created by deleting the second line from any of the template SVG files, leaving just the open and close tags. If implemented, it may be useful to name it something like 'aaaaaablank' so it appears first in the icon picker - if the icon appears in the middle of the list it may seem like there is a missing icon.

Thanks!

abvgdeyoj commented 5 years ago

I think that this feature doesn't belong in this project. Many launchers let user to select an icon from the file system, and here is the icon one might use for this purpose: http://png-pixel.com/1x1-00000000.png

subraizada3 commented 5 years ago

I have used a 1x1 transparent PNG in the past. My current launcher, ZimLX, does not allow selecting an image from disk - only icons from installed icon packs can be used.

Is there any downside to having one transparent icon? It helps some users while doing nothing bad to others.