Default File Icon Association Only Works for "file"

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The vsicons.associations.fileDefault.file setting only works with the "icon": "file". I’ve tried several different icons, with a variety of different formats (“svg”, “FileFormat.svg”, etc.) and everything other than file does not work. I’ve attached two screenshots demonstrating the issue.

I apologize if this is a duplicate question or is covered in the wiki. I’ve been searching through the repository and have not yet found a solution. I’m not sure if the issue is a bug, or is just a syntax error.

Any help is greatly appreciated. Thank you in advance. 👍

[JimiC]

@McPrescott The default file customization doesn’t support the overrides and extends functionality like the other icons do. Maybe this is a good opportunity to add them to it. In order to achieve what you want, you need to set up a vsicons-custom-icons folder and put the shell icon in there, as described in Custom Icons. Unfortunately, we only just a few days ago added the ability to set the vsicons-custom-icons folder path to a relative path to the project, using the vsicons.customIconFolderPath setting. So it’s not available yet. Now, it only works with providing an absolute path and this may not suit you.

I’m gonna leave this open until we release the new version. Hopefully, we may have added the above-mentioned functionality, for the default file too.

[JimiC]

I looked into adding extends functionality to the default files and folders but unfortunately, this is more complex than it looks and I’m afraid that it may destabilize the extension. Still, though the way to achieve what the OP wants is to create the vsicons-custom-icons folder as described in Custom Icons and copy inside it the preferred icon and name it accordingly (i.e.default_<value_of_icon_property>.<icon_file_extension>).