Custom icons not working outside of .vscode/ folder

After updating to VS Code v1.54, my custom icons definitions are now showing up as blank.

Following the directions in the README, I had included the following in my settings.json

"material-icon-theme.files.associations": {
    "*.pyx": "../../../icons/cython"
}

Where I had C:\Users\[username]\.vscode\icons\cython.svg, which worked prior to the update.

With some experimenting, I was able to find the icon would appear when placed within the .vscode/extensions/ folder. Shown below are some paths I found while experimenting.

"material-icon-theme.files.associations": {
    "*.pyx": "../../cython",        // WORKS: .vscode/extensions/cython.svg
    "*.pyx": "../../icons/cython",  // WORKS: .vscode/extensions/icons/cython.svg
    "*.pyx": "../cython",           // WORKS: .vscode/extensions/pkief.material-icon-theme-4.6.0/cython.svg
    "*.pyx": "cython",              // WORKS: .vscode/extensions/pkief.material-icon-theme-4.6.0/icons/cython.svg

    "*.pyx": "../../../cython",       // DOESN'T WORK: .vscode/cython.svg
    "*.pyx": "../../../icons/cython"  // DOESN'T WORK: .vscode/icons/cython.svg
}

I also found out that specifying absolute paths, even to files in the vscode/extensions/ directory do not work. Such as

"material-icon-theme.files.associations": {
    "*.pyx": "C:/Users/[username]/.vscode/extensions/cython"
}

I feel like there’s a piece of the puzzle I’m missing, but I have no clue what it is. Apologies if I’m doing something really dumb.

Build Info

vscode-material-icon-theme: v4.6.0

VS Code: Version: 1.54.3 (user setup) Commit: 2b9aebd5354a3629c3aba0a5f5df49f43d6689f8 Date: 2021-03-15T10:55:45.459Z Electron: 11.3.0 Chrome: 87.0.4280.141 Node.js: 12.18.3 V8: 8.7.220.31-electron.0 OS: Windows_NT x64 10.0.19042

[PKief]

I’m not sure, it can be that vscode protected it’s extension API to access folders outside the extensions directory, which is good in my opinion. I agree with you that it was more convenient to have the custom icons folder directly under the .vscode folder. But yeah, if it’s still working under the extensions directory and is more secure, then it’s also fine I think.

[Antyos]

@PKief Thanks! Unfortunately, I can’t seem get ../../icons/ to work as shown in the updated README. The only time I can get the config ../../icons/sample to work is with the following directory structure:

.vscode
 ┗ extensions
   ┗ icons
     ┗ sample.svg

Can anyone else confirm this?