Comment 5 for bug 405426

I had thought of this a while ago and had removed the icons from the title bar,
The problems/observations from using this behavior:
1: when there is a single window in the desktop , this move was ideal, the icon made no sense.
2: when there are multiple apps and windows open , *it made window identification difficult* , i was forced to read the titles to pull up a window from behind. this ended up hampering the work flow and i reverted to the icons

The icons in the title bar , are for quick identification, the mockups look good since there is only one window of one app running...

But when there are multiple windows from multiple apps, it is easier having the icons, as they are quick reference ,
For example , GIMP> when editing several images , the scaled version of the image being edited in the title bar ,
*helps bringing up the window from the background without having to remember the title* of the image .

While this is being removed , I like Dylan's idea of being able to restore the icon , Maybe an option in the Appearance>Interface.

How this idea needs to be properly implemented is:
1: when a single window is present , dont show the icon.
2: when multiple windows of the same app are present [nautilus,or other similar apps , which dont show a quick reference] do not show icon
3: If an app provides the icon as a quick reference [as in GIMP] ,when multiple windows of such apps are present , show the images but not the GIMP icon
4: when multiple apps are present in the single desktop , show the app icons.

Even if this goes a little over the scope of a papercuts,
If we look to implement it in with some rules , it is better than just removing the icons..