Feature: Use our own folder icon instead of the one provided in Windows

[cinqmilleans]

What feature or improvement do you think would benefit Files?

Files uses the icons provided by Windows for the displayed elements (drives, folders, files, ...).

Advantages:

• These icons are known to everyone.
• We take advantage of future Windows improvements. Disadvantages:
• This limits our unique visual identity.
• The visual identity may change according to Windows versions (including in the future).

We can use other icons for elements (drives, folders, ..., but not files because there are too many variants). There are already free packs. This should be an option to show windows icons.

We can also modify the color of the folders (not always yellow). This is how it is with Linux (Dolphin or Nautilus). It looks nice.

Requirements

• Move the generation of icons in several implementations of an interface.
• Generate folder icon from svg by changing colors.

Files Version

Version : 2.4.10.0 OS Version: 10.0.22621.963

Windows Version

Windows 11 22621.674

Comments

[hecksmosis]

I would say changing the folder color would be a useful addition

[SteveWorkshop]

Especially those yellow folders, Can we change their color in the future? I wanna set it blue, which looks like iPadOS' file manager

[yaira2]

Couple of thoughts

• custom icons wouldn't display previews of the folders contents, this would be a downgrade from the current expereince.
• should you be able to change colors on individual folders?

[katastrophe92]

Icons Packs for UI and the ability to set a Icon Pack to all Files and Folder at once Other Icons in the Customization Tab for Files and Folder besides the ones from C:\Windows\System32\SHELL32.dll