✨ Icons for every file format and file format opacity

[iggy890]

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.

Related to: #1014

Describe the solution you'd like

CodeEdit does not have SF Symbols icons for every language (including those it doesn't have syntax highlighting).

Some filenames do not have their proper extensions because it would take too much time to research them.

• .c
• .cpp
• .cc
• .hpp
• .r
• .ruby
• .svelte
• .ts
• .sql
• .rust
• .scala
• .perl
• .php
• .kotlin
• .lua
• .matlab
• .m (objective-c)
• .julia
• .cobol
• .groovy
• .d
• .zip
• .asm, .s, .inc, .wla, .SRC (assembly language)
• .jar
• .app
• .mov, .mp4 (video formats)
• .mp3, .wav (audio formats)
• .heic, .gif, .tga, .bmp, .psd, .hdr, .pic, .webp, .avif, .ppm, .pgm, .pbm, .pnm, .tiff, .pdf, .bmp (picture formats)
• .xcodeproj
• .obj, .dae, .abc, .glb, .ply, .blend (3d model formats)
• .dmg, .pkg (app installer formats)
• .HTM
• .key
• .pptx
• .xml
• .class
• .tex
• .fon
• .exe
• .lz
• .pyw
• .gzip
• .stl
• .gcode
• .dat
• .sqlite
• .doc
• .docm
• .docx
• .log
• .INFO
• .jng
• .PGM
• .pnm
• .pns
• .TIFF
• .block
• .pyc
• .m4v
• .vob
• .ppt
• .pps
• .tmp
• .iso
• .xlsx
• .DS_Store

Added to fork?

• Fork

PR created?

• PR

PR ready for review?

• Review

File icon opacity?

• Opacity

Additional context

The SF Symbols library has a lot of icons that we could use for the languages.
At some point I'm going to submit a PR from this fork: https://github.com/iggy890/CodeEdit/tree/file-icons

If you find anymore languages leave a comment below 👇

[iggy890]

@austincondiff Could you assign this to me?

[0xWDG]

@austincondiff Could you assign this to me?

I'm not Austin, but here we go :)

[iggy890]

Thanks @0xWDG.

[austincondiff]

We might do this in such a way that it allows for icon packs in the future? This being said, should we add these new symbols to CodeEditSymbols? @CodeEditApp/maintainers what do you think?

[iggy890]

We might do this in such a way that it allows for icon packs in the future? This being said, should we add these new symbols to CodeEditSymbols? CodeEditApp/maintainers what do you think?

You're right about this, even though SF Symbols has updates we are still limited with a lot of programming languages.

[matthijseikelenboom]

I think this should be hold of. We want to give extension developers the possibility to build some sort of icon pack, and for that we first need an API architecture. If we build this right now, there is 95% chance that we'll have to rebuild it.

Also this issue expects that we want to use SF Symbols, which hasn't even been discussed. I personally think that SF Symbols is ill fitted here, they are not designed for this purpose.

[iggy890]

Ok, I'll work on a different PR and commit all of my (current changes) to the PR.

[lukepistrol]

One Idea I got from using neovim a lot lately: What if we instead of SF Symbols use a DevIcons. They are available as SVGs and "just" need to be converted to SFSymbols (which tbh is a major chore task haha).

Optionally we could just use them as a font for the symbols.