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