Allow Icon Uri to refer to microsoft/vscode-icons

[HaaLeo]

Description

As an extension developer I want to use the latest microsoft/vscode-icons in my extension without copying the svg files as resources. I want to be able to do something like:

import * as vscode from 'vscode';

const myButton: vscode.QuickInputButton = {
    iconPath: {
        dark: vscode.Uri.parse('https://raw.githubusercontent.com/microsoft/vscode-icons/master/icons/dark/edit.svg'),
        light: vscode.Uri.parse('https://raw.githubusercontent.com/microsoft/vscode-icons/master/icons/dark/edit.svg')
    },
    tooltip: 'Insert Result'
}

Proposal

Allow the usage of https://raw.githubusercontent.com/microsoft/vscode-icons/... URIs

Related Issues

• Cannot use HTTPS URL for gutterIconPath in window.createTextEditorDecorationType #66069
• [icons] Support to allow re-using VSCode icons in user extensions #31466

[miguelsolorio]

I think #31466 will handle this. I don't think we want to link to any external URLs as that will easily break w/ connection issues. Instead we'd likely provide a way to use it similar to Octicons via $(icon-name). Will close this in favor of #31466.

Also, this work will rely on #78889 so keep an eye on that.