microsoft / microsoft/language-server-protocol
Add support for icons (like colors)
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Description
There is a way for a language server to return colors found in the code. But I miss a way to do the same with icons/images. Some editors display icons referenced in code so that the developer can visually see the icon and not only the path or name of the icon.
The LSP should specify a way to tell a client about icons or images found in the code.
I guess there are two possibilities for the payload:
- a path to the icon
- the icon data itself (probably best encoded as Base64)
I hope to see this feature in the near future. Would be good for CSS and other languages with images.
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Research direction
Start by reviewing how the Language Server Protocol currently represents colors and how clients consume that information. Read the five comments for constraints and prior discussion. Done means the protocol specifies a clear way for language servers to report referenced icons or images, including the supported payload and client behavior.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- css
- Domain
- api, devtools
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 25/100