Split this plugin

[WaKeMaTTa]

Hello,

Can plugin is 🆒 but this metrics is not 🆒 :

Can we split this plugin in to many plugins.

Example:

• file-icons the minimum / the base
• file-icons-office (requires file-icons-base) this have icons like: pdf, doc, docx, odt, txt, ...
• file-icon-web (requires file-icons-base) this have icons of web: javascript, html, css,
• file-icon-dinamic-css (requires file-icons-base) this have icons of web: sass, scss, less, ...
• ...

[Alhadis]

Hi @WaKeMaTTa,

The number of icons and formats actually has very little impact on loading time. The slow activation time is the fault of certain implementation decisions that were made to overcome shortcomings in Atom's APIs.

Splitting file-icons into separate icon-related packages simply isn't going to happen. It would be messy and difficult to maintain, and would probably also require some ugly refactoring of the codebase. Furthermore, any improvement to startup time would be negligible at best, and slower at worst (due to the time it takes to load multiple packages, should users have many installed).

Consult and subscribe to #565 for details and updates about the slow loading time.