Feature: Add support for file type icon overlay

[VOOM108]

What's the Problem?

In Explorer, thumbnails have, or can be set to have, filtype-icons as overlays. This helps to discern a JPG from a PSD or afphoto etc. Also, videos and images or PDFs are hard to discern without any indication of the filetype.

In medium or large icon view, even the filenames are usually cut off so that the extensions are not visible, either.

Solution/Idea

Have files show the filetype-icons as overlays the way Explorer does. (It is possible, that this is not native to explorer, but there is a setting in Sage Thumbs which leads to that kind of overlay)

Alternatives

No alternative ideas

Priorities

Capability	Priority
This proposal will allow end users to discern the filetype in thumbnail views	Must

Files Version

2.0.34.0

Windows Version

Windows 10 Pro Version 21H1 Betriebssystembuild 19043.1348

Comments

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[gave92]

Thanks for the report. This is unfortunately a known issue, e.g #6966, #6512.
Edit: I misread, this is different. Could you post a screenshot of Explorer showing this?

[VOOM108]

The missing thumbnails / thumbnails not being refreshed etc. are an issue here, too. But I saw, that that is a known issue.

I hope the image makes clear, what I mean. When it comes to discerning images, videos and PDFs, it is even more disturbing, but knowing if what I see is the .afphoto with layers, or a .png exported flat also makes working with files hard...

[VOOM108]

Also, I see much more text, up to 4 lines, in Explorer, but only one line in Files. So the filetype extension is visible even more seldom...

[yaira2]

Is this still an issue in the preview version? https://files.community/download/preview