@angelo-moreira Can you share a screenshot?

workbench.editor.showIcons controls the icons on the opened editors only, not the icons in the explorer view.

Which one are you referring to?

Sorry I wasn't aware of the difference I wanted to disable the icons on the explorer, I cannot send screen shot since I have a mac at home, I can however send a screen shot tomorrow in the ubuntu machine that I use at work.

I'm interested in this too. Last update to VS Code added little icons by every file in the explorer, I but I find it way too noisy visually.

Oh, if you want to disable the file icons altogether, you can change the file icon theme.
Run the command Preferences: File Icon Theme and choose either None or Minimal (Visual Studio Code.

Hope that helps

Thanks!

if you want to disable the file icons altogether, you can change the file icon theme.

That's a bit counter-intuitive - I came here ready to report the same issue.

I searched for "icons" and this is the only setting that came up - and from it's description, it sounds like it would do what I want...

Maybe add a note to that comment in the settings template, explaining how to turn off icons entirely?

cc @bpasero for the confusion in the setting name

@aeschli owns that

I improved the description of the icon theme:
Specifies the icon theme used in the workbench or 'null' to not show any file icons.