[Feature]: Pick up project icons more reliably outside React apps

[levelorbit]

Before submitting

• I searched existing issues and did not find a duplicate.
• I am describing a concrete problem or use case, not just a vague idea.

Area

apps/server

Problem or use case

Project icons in the Sidebar V2 chip row often fall back to the generic folder glyph. From my observation this works well for React projects and poorly for others.

I'd like the app to pick up project icons more reliably across more kinds of repos.

Version: 0.0.29-nightly.20260722.878 (9a0a07167f06)

Proposed solution

Improve icon discovery so non-React projects get icons more often.

Why this matters

The project row is easier to scan when each project has a distinct mark. Right now mixed lists look incomplete.

Smallest useful scope

Make discovery work better for common non-React project layouts.

Alternatives considered

No response

Risks or tradeoffs

No response

Examples or references

No response

Contribution

• I would be open to helping implement this.

[juliusmarminge]

where do you have the favicon in your proejct?

[levelorbit]

Usually static/ or public/ (sometimes static/icons/). React and Vue defaults resolve fine for me, but other frameworks’ layouts don’t.

[dain]

How about pulling the GitHub owner.avatar_url or GitLab avatar_url as a fallback? Since T3 already resolves the Git remote and source-control provider, it has the information needed for the API request.

Concrete example: https://api.github.com/repos/trinodb/trino returns owner.avatar_url as https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/34147222?v=4.