But there are quasi-standard APIs for accessing that information. In particular, Javascript has access to such APIs.
And trying to do this without integrating with OS services has its own complexities, like how you handle 'execute bit' on Windows which doesn't have one. Which is why there are JS APIs mapping to the system versions that handle e.g. Unix execute bit vs. Windows shell mappings. On Thu, Oct 11, 2018 at 9:01 PM Richard Hainsworth <rnhainswo...@gmail.com> wrote: > I don't think so. The icon is inside the panel of files available for > editing. Since atom is cross-OS it cannot rely on one desktop manager of > one OS. > > On Fri, 12 Oct 2018, 02:10 Brandon Allbery, <allber...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> This will be part of the desktop manager (probably Gnome), not Atom. >> Check the context menu for the icon in the file manager. I don't run Gnome >> so don't know where they hide how you set it currently. >> >> On Thu, Oct 11, 2018 at 5:20 AM Richard Hainsworth < >> rnhainswo...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> I use atom to edit perl6 scripts because of the nice perl6 syntax >>> highlighting. Also I came across Atom from this group. >>> >>> Although files with .p6 or .pm6 have a nice camilea icon associated with >>> them, ... >>> >>> ... if I give a p6 file an exec bit, the icon changes to something like >>> an onion. >>> >>> I'm using Ubuntu. >>> >>> I've searched on Google, tried StackOverflow, and tried the Atom sites. >>> I can't find where to look to change this behaviour. >>> >>> Sorry for the slightly off-topic question. >>> >> >> >> -- >> brandon s allbery kf8nh >> allber...@gmail.com >> > -- brandon s allbery kf8nh allber...@gmail.com
