material-icon-theme.folders.theme is ignored on first launch

I have material-icon-theme.folders.theme in my settings, if I install the extension and reload window, the setting will be ignored. I need to reload the window twice.

[PKief]

Hot reload is now possible for the following configurations:

• activeIconPack
• files.associations
• folders.associations
• languages.associations
• folders.theme

So the “folders.theme” will not trigger a reload anymore 😉

[PKief]

Hi @Tyriar, it’s currently not possible by VS Code to reload (icon) themes without restarting the editor.

You can take a look at the following PR:

• https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/pull/66115

and the related issue:

• https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues/45963

If you set material-icon-theme.folders.theme to something different than the default specific option then this leads to a reload. This is therefore necessary because the JSON file with the icon manifest for the extension is changed. If the option is set to e.g. none then the folder icons must be removed from the manifest to hide the folder icons in the file explorer. An updated manifest is not yet recognized by VS Code in order to reload the icons in Explorer.