ivan added a comment.
The reason for the icon setting is to have full backwards compatibility. Maybe someone likes the static icon better than random icons they set for each activity. I don't like to have everything configurable, but here it is not a significant maintainance overhead, and the configuration dialogue would be quite dull with a single checkbox :) REPOSITORY R119 Plasma Desktop REVISION DETAIL https://phabricator.kde.org/D28136 To: ivan, #plasma, ngraham, davidedmundson, mart Cc: plasma-devel, Orage, LeGast00n, The-Feren-OS-Dev, cblack, jraleigh, zachus, fbampaloukas, GB_2, ragreen, ZrenBot, ngraham, himcesjf, lesliezhai, ali-mohamed, jensreuterberg, abetts, sebas, apol, ahiemstra, mart