Feature: Nested folders.associations

Apologies if there’s already a way to do this, but it’d be great if there was a way to override the icons of a folders child folders. e.g.

"material-icon-theme.folders.associations": {
    "pages/*": "views",
},

In the example above, all folders inside the “pages” folder would have the views icon.

This should probably be “opt in” functionality, but I’ve run into quite a few situations with complicated / long directories where it would be helpful to identify which directory I’m currently looking in (via matching icons), without having to scroll up. It’d also be nice to not have mismatched icons within a specific directory just because of how I’ve chosen to name a child folder (e.g. a child folder named “logs” currently stands out when it shouldn’t in my case).

[PKief]

Hi @shaneparsons, I can understand your issue, but this is currently not supported by VS Code itself. We have to wait until the Extension API of VS Code will support such a feature in the future.

[shaneparsons]

https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/12493#issuecomment-1084511097