icon request: opened folder with down arrow

[goyalyashpal]

• see for example the vs-code icon themes:

  • vs-minimal
  • simple-icons

• the summary is that currently, the files-icon

  • for closed folder is "right arrow & closed folder" and
  • for opened folder is "down arrow & closed folder"

• the suggestion for file-icons.file-icons is to change the opened one to "down arrow & open folder"

PS: thanks a lot for such a nice icon-pack. i was also looking for smth similar: "for improved visual grepping"

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[TwoWaffles]

Hi did you ever get this done? I love this icon pack for vscode but it really bothers me that there is no open folder icon. It makes traversing large folder structures quite difficult.

[goyalyashpal]

Hi did you ever get this done?

hi!

no! vscode kept messing up the icon selection for some reason. so,:

• in vscodium, i:

  • started using the "Collapse Folders in Explorer" button in vscodium explorer view
  • started to use "Workspaces: Add Folder to Workspace..." to keep only the required folders in the explorer view
    yes, this automatically creates no-clutter, temporary "Untitled workspaces" if u are not already in a workspace

• on a system level, i started to use the following (all these are cross platform):

  • use a better cross-platform GUI file manager like doublecmd
  • use lsd -Al --tree for a much much much better and colorful long listing of files in terminal CLI
  • use the directory stack dirs (bash builtin) to quickly switch between multiple dirs in terminal :
    dirs -v, pushd, popd
    this is available on windows with msys2

[goyalyashpal]

oh and by the way, don't forgot to like the issues which u need. so many projects use thumbs up count as a measure to prioritise their devt efforts

[TwoWaffles]

I did some digging around and can see that originally the Octicons used in this theme only contain these

I have found this which goes with the same style, but cannot find an open folder icon that uses this style and I sadly do not have the vector graphic skills to make one.

I think it would be cool if we could use the updated Octicon file icons which look as follows:

or to use fontawesome one's which I see the fontawesome.woff2 already contains.

This would require some minor file-icons-icon-theme.json changes such as adding below:

"folder": "_folder",
"folderExpanded": "_folder_open",
"rootFolder": "_repo",
"iconDefinitions": {
	"_file": {
		"fontId": "octicons",
		"fontCharacter": "\\f011",
		"fontSize": "114%"
	},
	"_folder": {
		"fontId": "fa",
		"fontCharacter": "\\f07B",
		"fontSize": "114%"
	},
	"_folder_open": {
		"fontId": "fa",
		"fontCharacter": "\\f07C",
		"fontSize": "114%"
	},

Which looks like:

I am curious what @Alhadis and @DanBrooker think of this change 😄