Support to show icons in more places (tabs, open editors, quick open)

[ivancuric]

• VSCode Version: 1.51

It would be great if VScode supported an option to show the icons in open tabs and editors.

[ramya-rao-a]

The release notes does talk about eventually supporting icons for tabs.

"Open editors" here refer to the opened editors as opposed to open editors section on the side bar in #11287

[bpasero]

Icons are now showing in these additional locations once you pick an icon theme:

• open editors view
• tabs
• title in editor when tabs are disabled
• search results
• problems
• quick open / editor pickers

[infinnie]

I wish we were able to configure its behavior on where icons can show up.

[bpasero]

@infinnie where do you want to not see icons?

[infinnie]

@bpasero wherever it seems too visually cluttered.

[bpasero]

@infinnie like?

[joshsleeper]

@bpasero I think what @infinnie is trying to say is that it'd be nice to be able to turn the icons on or off in each location based on one or more config entries.

That is, if I run a small screen with a lot of tabs for example, maybe I'm not keen on showing the icons on the tabs themselves.

I'm not sure how hard that would be to add support for a config entry per-icon-location (or maybe just one config entry that takes an array/dict/etc.), but I believe that's what he's suggesting.

[infinnie]

@joshsleeper BTW I am female. What a pity it is for GitHub not to be able to let us config and display our sexes (or genders?)

[joshsleeper]

@infinnie And I've been trying so hard to be more gender neutral with my comments too! Bah on me, super sorry about that, I promise it wasn't ill intended.

[bpasero]

@joshsleeper for that reason there is a setting to disable icons in tabs. that is the only setting we provide for now. I am still trying to find out where else @infinnie would want to configure this.

[infinnie]

@bpasero That would be fine!

[bpasero]

Ok then it looks like we are good.

[jtlowe]

Glad to see this setting! It wasn't immediately clear to me what the setting ".showIcons" actually did, even after reading the comment above it. Maybe "workbench.editor.showTabIcons" would be better.

[bpasero]

@jtlowe no, the icons also show up when tabs are disabled

[jtlowe]

@bpasero I see what you're saying. My last thought would be something like: "Controls if opened editors should show with an icon next to their title or not." I don't know if this would have helped me initially though. I need to improve on my vscode terminology. Thanks!