Comment 15 for bug 405426

Rich, there is something grander here. Ken and I are on the design team, and Ken designed the Human theme and guides it as it evolves. Tight control over details like what is displayed in window titlebars is extremely important to provide polished, professional, and consistent interfaces, and for Ubuntu to establish and maintain its identity. I am confident that these icons will eventually be dropped from the default theme, but if it becomes too difficult to use Karmic without these icons they will be left in until some other mechanism for identifying windows can be implemented.