Icons in dired mode for Emacs

Question

I would like to use the dired mode of emacs as my file browser. I am very much addicted to see an icon for file/folder rather that to see the extension and color. The icons give me a very quick visual feedback. I have searched the web for display of icons in dired but found none. So I wonder whether it is even possible to do this and if yes how?

To put my question clearly

How can I display icons for files and folders in dired mode of Emacs?

Answer 1

all-the-icons-dired is a more current solution. Another option that looks quite nice is to use treemacs-icons-dired

I just switched to treemacs-icons-dired and recommend it. Simply install the package and add a mode hook like:

(add-hook 'dired-mode-hook 'treemacs-icons-dired-mode)