Add icon for symlink

[bakoontz2]

Preflight Checklist

• [X] I have installed the latest version of Storage Explorer.
• [X] I have checked existing resources, including the troubleshooting guide and the release notes.
• [X] I have searched for similar issues.

Problem

Differentiate symlinks from documents (both use the same icon)

Desired Solution

An icon that represents a symlink

Alternatives and Workarounds

No workaround, it is what it is right now

Additional Context

No response

[bakoontz2]

The "documents" are actually symlinks in this image.

[craxal]

@bakoontz2 Can you provide more context? Are you using Blobs, ADLS Gen2 Blobs, or File Shares? What MIME types or content types are you seeing for these symlinks? Can you share more of your screenshot?

Can you share more about your particular use case? What platform do you run Storage Explorer on? Why do you upload symlinks to Azure? Why do you need a different icon?

[bakoontz2]

File shares that we mount in Linux containers. Here is a better screenshot:

Here are the symlinks as represented in Linux after they are mounted:

Here is what SE thinks is the content type of the symlinks:

Some people on our team, not comfortable in a Linux environment, use SE to navigate and update the file system. Given that there is no clue in the SE presentation that what appear to be docs are actually symlinks, and the inability to navigate the symlinks from within SE, leads to confusion. SE is exclusively run on Win 10E. We don't "upload" symlinks to Azure. The symlinks are created after the FS is mounted in a Linux container. A different icon is desired because the present icon does not accurately represent the underlying symlink.

[craxal]

@RichardMSFT Getting a separate icon for symlinks should be pretty simple to do. But let's investigate for 1.35.0 what it would take to support navigation via symlink, and then we can plan further.

[bakoontz2]

Thank you for the quick response!