Provide file icons per file type

[chrisxvin]

• VSCode Version: Feb. stable build (0.10.11)
• OS Version: Win 10 Pro

Steps to Reproduce:

1. Install VSCode.
2. See any code file in Explorer, icons are changed to vscode style, and cannot tell out C#/C++/H/etc...

Please add an option to choose whether to use VSCode file icon or not.

PS: This problem doesn't appears in insider build 0.10.13.

[joaomoreno]

Brad can we get custom icons for each file type?

[bgashler1]

@joaomoreno: Sure, we support numerous languages, though. Do we have a list of file associations that are affected so I can design just for those?

[chrisxvin]

Well, I found again this problem on version 1.1.0-insider, build date 2016-5-9.
This time, C# file type associated with VSCode is set to "Visual Studio Code - Insiders", icons are all the same, :-( Can't tell it is a C# code file.
Screenshot is here:

[joaomoreno]

Related to #7196

[joaomoreno]

@chrisxvin, #7196 just got closed, so in the next update those Visual Studio Code - Insiders labels will get much more specific (e.g. C# Source File).

That should help a lot until we get the icons to really ice this cake off. 👍

[acmario]

Any chance to have specific icons for each or at least main file types?

[ashikns]

Is there any update on this? Or at least some extension or registry script I can use to achieve this?

[miguelsolorio]

We're working on updating our file type icons that utilize the seti icons. There will be two icons at various sizes, the larger one will include the file type + vsc logo, the smaller one will only include the file type. Below is an example (on the mac) for both sizes:

Larger view

Smaller view

[bpasero]

@misolori should we put this on the agenda again once we tackled Settings editor? Looks like we never really picked up on this.

[miguelsolorio]

@bpasero yes, let's do this after the Settings editor.

[NavyAdmiral]

@misolori Will it be possible to provide an api/settings to change the icons that will be shipped on default by vscode? Letting extensions modify file icons per file type in Explorer would be great.

[miguelsolorio]

@bpasero do we have a full list of all of the file types we'd want to support? The Seti theme has +160 file types, though a lot overlap:

[bpasero]

@misolori maybe we limit this to the top file types users are using Code with and find a generic icon for the rest? Not sure we need all the file types?

[miguelsolorio]

@bpasero I thought about maybe starting with the file types that appear in the Language Mode picker. But I’ll look through the telemetry we have for the top file types.

[bpasero]

@misolori yeah that list is open ended though when you install extensions