Vscode: [themes] icon color based on file modification state

[zzjin]

Feature Request: need colorless icons when not modified.

May be some theme or extension api can do this?

When a file is not modified, git status show file in white color, but file's left icons shows too many colors.

May have one setting that can control this, to set a default icon color to same as file name's color.

now:

to:

Will look cleaner

[jrieken]

The color is set for the whole element but the icons over rule that

[JimiC]

Actually what we need as theme authors is another entry in the icons schema (configuration) to enable that. Something in the lines of:

"iconDefinitions": {
    "_file_scm_unmodified": {
         "iconPath": "./images/File_16x_inverse.svg"
    }
    "_folder_scm_unmodified": {
        "iconPath": "./images/Folder_16x_inverse.svg"
    }
    "_folder_open_scm_unmodified": {
        "iconPath": "./images/Folder_open_16x_inverse.svg"
    }
    ...,
    "fileScmUnmodifed" : "_file_scm_unmodified",
    "folderScmUnmodified" : "_folder_scm_unmodified",
    "folderExpandedScmUnmodified" : "_folder_open_scm_unmodified",
    ...,
}

with the addition of the other scm states.

[JimiC]

I corrected the proposed schema cause the original was supporting the opposite of the OP request.

[kachkaev]

I'd be also great if ‘activated’ icons could be of the same color as the git status – this looks even cleaner:

I'm used to such ‘calm’ icon theme in Atom and would be pleased to see the same low level of visual noise in VSCode! Looked through the available icon themes, but could not find any.

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__UPD__: Here's how things look in Atom with file-icons package:

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__UPD2__: Found a ported version of file-icons for vscode: https://github.com/file-icons/vscode. It has a colourless theme, which is great, but still not quite the same as a wider API option you're discussing:

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