athityakumar / athityakumar/colorls
Make symlinks to directories use a folder icon, or have all symlinks have a symlink icon
- Dominant language
- Ruby
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- 5.1k
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Description
### Description
Currently symlinks show the file icon.
It would be nice if symlinks show a directory icon if the target is a directory.
Otherwise, it would be nice if symlinks show the symlink icon.
This is especially important with the short listing format, where a symlink to a directory and a regular file have indistinguishable style (e.g. yellow, with file icon).
- Type of issue :
- [ ] Installation
- [x] Font-related
- [x] Feature request
- [x] Bug in existing feature
- [ ] Developer mode : Code quality / Tests / Documentation
Contributor guide
Research direction
No file or test is named. Start by locating the symlink handling and icon-selection entry points, then inspect how the short listing format renders links. Done means directory symlinks use the folder icon, or all symlinks use a distinct symlink icon, with coverage for the selected behavior.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- ruby
- Domain
- cli
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 3/5
- Estimated time
- 1-2 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 38/100