Material Icons for GitHub
What is Material Icons for GitHub?
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Extension summary
Replace GitHub's default icons with icons from Visual Studio Code's Material Icon Theme icons. Use the same icons on your code editor and on github.com, and quickly identify file types, configuration files and project scaffolding at a glance.
This extension pull icons and replacement lists directly from the open source vscode extension https://github.com/PKief/vscode-material-icon-theme.
This extension can replace icons on many other leading source control platforms.
For bug reports, please open Issues on the extensions repository at https://github.com/material-extensions/material-icons-browser-extension
Don't forget to star the github repository if you like the extension.
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spammy, or outdated.- Visually enhances the appearance of GitHub file icons
- Intuitive and user-friendly design
- Customizes folder icons based on contents
- Very useful for visualizing code structure
- Works well with both GitHub and VSCode
- Occasional bugs that prevent the extension from loading
- Issues with functionality on repository home pages
- Some users report it stopped working for them recently
- Looks nicer than default GitHub icons
- Has bugs affecting performance
- Very useful and practical extension
Recent reviews
Mohamed Amr, 2024-11-12 
Harman, 2024-10-25 
Ryan, 2024-10-23Extension safety
Risk impact
Material Icons for GitHub requires very minimum permissions.
Risk likelihood
Material Icons for GitHub has earned a good reputation and can be trusted.
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