Vscode: Display different ICON on taskbar according to different project

[5dao]

Issue Type: Feature Request

Open many vscode instance, with documents and projects in different languages, but taskbar icon is too single to distinguish easily

VS Code version: Code 1.40.0 (86405ea23e3937316009fc27c9361deee66ffbf5, 2019-11-06T17:09:34.601Z)
OS version: Darwin x64 19.0.0

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Thanks for submitting this issue. Please also check if it is already covered by an existing one, like:

• Windows taskbar does not auto reveal when VSCode is maximized and taskbar configured to auto-hide (#84342)
• Icon dont show in the taskbar (#81285)
  

[akrymskiy]

Yes this would be great - it is very hard to switch instances when having many different projects open. Ideally this would be something configurable per Folder/Project allowing to override default VS icon or at least provide an overlay.

[edenprojectde]

Yes please, i just wanted to open an issue about this. It's the only thing that is missing to really manage multiple projects. Please add this.

A hue slider would do it for me. But if you could change the Icon or even just add a second notification style icon on it, that would be really great.

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[5dao]

Yes this would be great - it is very hard to switch instances when having many different projects open. Ideally this would be something configurable per Folder/Project allowing to override default VS icon or at least provide an overlay.

If it receives 20 upvotes we will move it to our backlog @edenprojectde @akrymskiy

[mfearby]

Yes this would be great - it is very hard to switch instances when having many different projects open. Ideally this would be something configurable per Folder/Project allowing to override default VS icon or at least provide an overlay.

I created an feature request asking if we could change the icon colour because I have so many blue icons in my taskbar, but this would also be great!

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Happy Coding

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This feature request has not yet received the 20 community upvotes it takes to make to our backlog. 10 days to go. To learn more about how we handle feature requests, please see our documentation.

Happy Coding

[5dao]

This feature request has not yet received the 20 community upvotes it takes to make to our backlog. 10 days to go. To learn more about how we handle feature requests, please see our documentation.

Happy Coding

@akrymskiy @edenprojectde @mfearby @bpasero

how to upvotes?

[akrymskiy]

how to upvotes?

I believe you just have to add a +1 / Thumbs-Up reaction to the first comment of the thread - there are currently 13 as of now

[akrymskiy]

Just to illustrate the feature as implemented in SQL Workbench/J - compared to the current state of VS.Code. Setting different icons per project gives a much better clarity when switching among multiple instances. Would also be okay if we could at least do icon overlay like Windows shortcuts - or anything really to make it easier to get back to the right instance :)

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