[Feature Request] Folder colour inheritance

[wcoots]

Currently it seems that folders without a specified colour use the default colour. It would be great to see an option for a folder's colour to be inherited from the parent folder if the parent folder has a specified colour.

For example the components folder is green, so all of the folders inside this directory are also green, perhaps only at the top level and not for sub-directories?

Current:

Proposed:

[lucas-labs]

This would be a nice option, but unfortunately I can't think of an easy way to implement it with the current vscode icons API.

[arv-anshul]

🤔 What about this!

[lucas-labs]

🤔 What about this!

What are you proposing?

[arv-anshul]

What are you proposing?

@lucas-labs My concern is, what if we have sub-folders which has its own folder icon and colour. How can we deal with.

Do we just change sub-folder's colour and keep the icon as it is? 🤔