The top bar seems to be unable to show icons too (eg for adblock, rikaichan, etc).
Most modern window managers do not literally show icons to represent iconified windows anymore.
The next display showed icons in only two wedges.
It's a little less true than it used to be with the Vista-style taskbar that shows icons and no window titles, but it's still true.
When selected, it shows icons for all of the periodicals that the user has subscribed to, such as newspapers and magazines.
Other video sequences showed hearts, flowers and stars, all of them icons of balletic romanticism.
The player is shown icons signifying when the squad mates have moved into position and taken aim on marked targets.
The Start screen already shows more tiles than the Start menu shows icons (by default, at least).
Set it to show only icons.
Instead of a video screen, the Valeo system is intended to simply show icons and text commands after the driver pushes a button to start it.