Folder Customization

Set a color, text badge, emoji badge or tooltip for any folder in your workspace.

This extension allows you to customize your folders in your workspace settings, by setting a color, badge (text or emoji) and tooltip. This is visible in the Explorer view and the tabs.

Features

Right click on a folder in the Explorer view and select Folder Customization to open the context menu.

Select an emoji badge for a folder.

Select a color for a folder.

Features
Customize the color of a folder (256 ANSI Colors)
Set a text badge for a folder
Set an emoji as text badge for a folder
Set a tooltip for a folder

Requirements

This extension does not have any additional requirements. Internally it uses the vscode.git extension to determine if it should set a color or not.

Usage

Right click on a folder in the Explorer view and select Folder Customization to open the context menu.

Command	Description
Set Color	Set the color of the folder. This will colorize the folder (and all subfolders) in the Explorer view and the tabs (name).
Clear Color	Clear the color of the folder while keeping the badge and tooltip.
Set Text Badge	Set a text badge for the folder. This will show next to the name of a file/folder. Note that a Text Badge can only be 2 letters.
Set Emoji Badge	Set an emoji badge for the folder. This will show next to the name of a file/folder.
Clear Badge	Clear the badge of the folder while keeping the color and tooltip.
Set Tooltip	Set a tooltip for the folder. This will show when hovering over a file/folder in the Explorer view.
Clear Tooltip	Clear the tooltip of the folder while keeping the color and badge.
Block Color	Block the parent folder from setting a color.
Block Badge	Block the parent folder from setting a badge.
Clear All Folder Customizations	Clear all customizations of the folder.
Reset Workspace	Clear all customizations of all folders in the workspace.

Extension Settings

Folders

This extension wlll save the configuration for every folder in folder-customization.folders in your workspace settings. This has the following keys:

Key	Description
path	Path of the folder
color	Color of the folder (foldercustomization.AnsiColor0-255) (optional)
badge	Badge text of the folder (optional)
tooltip	Tooltip of the folder (optional)

These settings don't have to set by hand, you can use the context menu (see Usage) in the Explorer view to set these settings per folder. Note: When color or badge is set as "__blocked__", it means it will block the parent folder from setting a color, or badge. This doesn't work for tooltip.

Other settings

• folder-customization.colorChangedFolders - Color changed folders in the Explorer view. (default: false)

Release notes

Please see the changelog for the information about the latest updates.

Following extension guidelines

The extension follows the Extension Guidelines that are provided by Microsoft