Comment 14 for bug 619477

Yes, this is a case where it is difficult to decide for one option.

Of course, adding the icon there is not an ideal solution. In fact, it doesn’t really have much purpose other than helping you to recognize to which window the menus belong. But that’s exactly what we need in that place, in my opinion: Some indicator for the user from which window the menus in the top menu bar come. The current approach, displaying the title, would work but is not ideal because the text has a variable width while the space is fixed. So using icons, which have a fixed size, in some way seems to be the logical consequence for me, even if I agree it is not ideal.

I am using a netbook with a 10” screen and 1024x600, and I can say that at least for me, the icon (at least the small, un-cut one) can be recognized easily. The 16px versions of the icons do not have that many details – in fact, they are used inside the title bars in other themes and also in the window switcher in Ubuntu desktop edition.

I don’t think the space in the title bars of the unmaximized windows is a problem; dialogs usually have quite short titles and for maximized windows, Unity doesn’t show any title.