Extension Devs: Extending an existing Icon Theme

[warrenbuckley]

• VSCode Version: 1.8.1
• OS Version: Windows 10 Pro

I am building a super simple extension that associates a JSON Schema for my file package.manifest from SchemaStore.org and then with the languages contributionPoint are able to ensure that the json language is applied to it & thus the Schema is immediately available.

Continuing this I thought it would be neat to have a custom icon for my file, my initial thought is that I could extend an already icon theme that the user has set/defined in VSCode. So when contributing an Icon set from an extension my assumption if providing a very limited/tiny JSON of associations in my case just for the filenames package.manifest it would display & work against my chosen/active icon theme.

Otherwise I have a tedious task of duplicating or extending this JSON file with say the default VSCode Icon JSON file.

My limited icon JSON file

{
    "iconDefinitions": {
        "_package_manifest_file": {
            "iconPath": "./my-icon.svg"
        }
    },
    "fileNames": {
        "package.manifest": "_package_manifest_file"
    }
}

[hoovercj]

Somewhat related: #7669

[warrenbuckley]

@hoovercj does this mean this will not be supported or considered for future?

[aeschli]

duplicate of #14662.

We don't know yet if and when we can add such support.