#MATERIAL ICON THEME CHANGE FOLDER COLOR PATCH#
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Material Symbols are a set of variable icon fonts created at seven weights across three different styles.

Icons can be used to represent common actions. To answer your question though, yes you still need a patched font that includes these symbols in order for them to be displayed in your terminal. Material Symbols are a set of variable icon fonts created at seven weights across three different styles. Alternatively, I think this plugin could just depend on nvim-web-devicons and use its API to override the icon and color configurations similar to nvim-nonicons. The plugin featured in this post seems to be mostly the same as nvim-web-devicons but with a different set of default icons and colors which is why many people in this thread think this could be upstreamed to nvim-web-devicons repo as an optional configuration option. It has default settings for both the icons and colors for many common filetypes, but they can be customized and you can add support for your own filetypes.

Nvim-web-devicons is a plugin that maps filetypes to icons in a patched font and colors for those icons.

#MATERIAL ICON THEME CHANGE FOLDER COLOR PATCH#

Nerd Fonts also includes scripts and tools to patch a font yourself if it is not already included in the repo. Nerd Fonts is a collection of popular fonts that have been patched to include icons from various sources. I think I lot more people would use your plugin if you integrated with the original project by using its API to set a custom configuration with these nice looking icons and colors :) Even in dark theme the Project Window has a some kind of grey background which blurs the file/folder names (see screenshot). Though I havent found a way to change the look-&-feel of the Project Window panel on the left of the editor. It will be hard to gain users if you strictly maintain a fork and force users to also use forks of other popular plugins. The editor window background color can be changed from Settings as per your preference. As you know, nvim-web-devicons is fairly well established in the neovim plugin community and many popular plugins have it as a dependency. Based on the git history, it looks like the author is open to contributors, as many plugin authors are. If you also want to add actual features to nvim-web-devicons, consider submitting PR's. This is a similar approach to a plugin I use nvim-nonicons. If your main goal is to provide this custom configuration, you could simply make nvim-web-devicons a dependency of your plugin and use the require('nvim-web-devicons').set_icon() API to set the custom icons and colors. Right now, it looks like your plugin looks identical to nvim-web-devicons but with a different set of default icons and colors. ' OP! First off I think the customization of the icons and colors looks great.Īs others have mentioned in this thread, you may want to consider some different approaches to your plugin and how you give users access to the customization you've done. If there's no leading * it will be automatically configured as filename and not as file extension. You can change the color of the default folder icon using the command palette: or via user.

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In order to overwrite all the specific file icons as well, two asterisks must be set instead of one, i.e. Based off of the original Material Icon Theme extension, the 'Helium Icon Theme' extension provides lots of icons based on Material Design for Visual Studio Code including Mezzanine's own DSL - Helium File icons. For some specific file names there is a special icon. However, not all files with the same file extension always have the same icon. For example you could define an icon for *.sample and every file that ends with. pattern you can define custom file icon associations.

You can customize the icon associations directly in the user settings. You can also achieve no saturation (i.e., grayscale) by setting Toggle Grayscale to ON. If colors do not make you happy you can change the icons to have less saturation making them look grayish or completely grayscale by setting saturation to 0: 'material-icon-theme-simon.saturation': 0.5 You can set a custom opacity for the icons: 'material-icon-theme-simon.opacity': 0.5 You can change the design of the folder icons using the command palette: You can change the color of the default file and folder icons using the command palette: You can change the color of the default folder icon using the command palette: or via user settings: '': 'ef5350', Folder themes. Get the Material Design icons into your VS Code.įile icons Folder icons Customize file & folder color Fork Material Icon Theme File icons Folder icons Customize folder color.

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