Feature request for supporting per-language icons

[aminnairi]

Something a la GitLab that could be cool to have a quick grasp at the file types in a repository folder.

[ghost]

Hi aminnairi.

I don't know if it's a good idea, I was thinking about using shields to demonstrate icons on gitly

[aminnairi]

If you can provide a visual example I think it would help getting the idea behind using shields for people that don't know what it is or what it looks like if this sounds good to you.

[ghost]

Hi aminnairi, thank you for feedback.

what this shields?

Concise, consistent, and legible badges in SVG and raster format

but... what this Shields.io?

Quality metadata badges for open source projects

[JalonSolov]

Those are badges, not icons for individual files.

[aminnairi]

Unfortunately, these badges are more suited for open-source projects that wants to show something important like a package that has 0 vulnerabilities, or the link for an NPM package etc...

I was thinking something even simpler like SVG versions of the most popular file extensions so that it remains easy to customize in color, size, etc...

[ghost]

Hi JalonSolov.

Those are badges, not icons for individual files.

shields is a good project, and can be used in the frontend interface for icons you request.

[JalonSolov]

The page literally says "This is home to Shields.io, a service for concise, consistent, and legible badges in SVG and raster format". A badge is not a file icon.

Badges are meant for things like showing what percentage of a project is V vs C vs ..., or for showing that the project meets some criteria.

They are not meant for showing a V icon on a .v file.

[ghost]

Hi JalonSolov.

The page literally says "This is home to Shields.io, a service for concise, consistent, and legible badges in SVG and raster format". A badge is not a file icon.
Badges are meant for things like showing what percentage of a project is V vs C vs ..., or for showing that the project meets some criteria.
They are not meant for showing a V icon on a .v file.

This is usually done in the frontend interface, a good example of this is GitHub. Or... a complementary idea would be to have a css icon library or use unicode - these are complementary ideas to create file icons.

1. concept

image-description: As we can see in the image, we have a list of icons that appear. Note: This image is illustrative and I took it from github/khang-nd/spc

2. question/feedback

What do you think of this idea?

[JalonSolov]

Unicode doesn't have the V icon, markdown icon, etc. gitly just needs small icon files in whatever format makes the most sense.