Task icon id and color is not used

[jackbuehner]

I am unable to get the icon and color to appear in the sidebar panel. I have even tried the exact example in the README, but the icon and color only appears in the terminal. I am using veersion 0.1.0 from 2025-07-03.

For example:

{
  "label": "Simulate PR workflow",
  "type": "shell",
  "command": "gh act pull_request",
  "icon": {
    "id": "github-action",
    "color": "terminal.ansiGreen"
  },
  "group": "build"
}

[Batyan45]

Thanks for feedback.
Hm. Cannot reproduce for now.

Can you provide full task.json file?

[Wim-De-Clercq]

It doesn't work with tasks defined in the settings file (not tasks.json) with json like so

{
    "other settings": "...",
    "tasks": {
        "version": "2.0.0",
        "tasks": [
            {
                "label": "Launch",
                "The rest of the task": "...",
                "icon": {
                    "id": "github-action",
                    "color": "terminal.ansiGreen"
                  },
            },
        ]
    }

I'm honestly not sure if this is desired by vscode to be able to configure them there. Because there is no highlighting in the setings.json from vscode. But it does somehow work to define tasks there regardless.