Comment 6 for bug 899793

Live icons is a great feature in my opinion. For example when I run latex I obtain .tex, .log, .aux, .out and pdf files, and when I combine latex and maxima I also generate .mxx, .mac and .mac.log files. 8 files with the same name with only differ in extension, 7 of them text files.

My icons are not extremly large (they are "out of the box", I haven't resize them) and I can see 4 lines of text, 5 characters in each line. Those 20 characters allow me to instantly recognize which one is the .tex file, wich one are .log, etc, I don't need to look at the extension. That's the reason which I love live text icons. I attach a picture.