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VS Code reloading to change icons

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I’m assuming the current icon manifest approach of handling presets forces VS Code to be reloaded in order to update the icons.

Could this be avoided if instead the different presets were abstracted into their own extensions, and vscode-icons refactored so that it’s only in charge of handling project detection and theme switching?

I’m asking this because I can very easily go to settings.json, change workbench.iconTheme and immediately see the icons updated, without having to restart VS Code.

So, this extension would only have to set: "workbench.iconTheme": "vscode-icons", or "workbench.iconTheme": "vscode-icons-angular", etc. accordingly.

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  • State:closed
  • Created 6 years ago
  • Comments:24 (23 by maintainers)

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JimiCcommented, Oct 30, 2017

@MonsieurMan It’s time to invest in an SSD. Development on HDD is a PITA.

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JimiCcommented, Sep 26, 2017

From some testing I’ve done, unfortunately, vscode loads the manifest file before it invokes activate. So any manipulation before calling activate is not possible. This means that in case the user has set custom icons vscode will have to restart anyways (even if we use two manifest files).

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