I'm continuing my work on 2.0 themes and I see that icons for courses and activities have been added to the navigation breadcrumb. Can someone please explain why these have been put there? I find them to be an unnecessary distraction and will probably hide them using CSS if they stick around.

Hi Patrick,
They are simply there because the navbar now gets its information from the navigation structure in Moodle rather than just what the page gives it.
Currently you can get rid of them in two ways:
I'll leave it up to the themers to decide this one, I have created MDL-22072 to gather opinions/votes, it all are in favour of the change consider it done
They are simply there because the navbar now gets its information from the navigation structure in Moodle rather than just what the page gives it.
Currently you can get rid of them in two ways:
- Hide them using CSS (CSS)
- Override the base renderer (PHP)
I'll leave it up to the themers to decide this one, I have created MDL-22072 to gather opinions/votes, it all are in favour of the change consider it done
Breadcrumb menus are almost universally classic - listing of links, one after another.
Agree with Patrick on this one.
-Waleed
Agree with Patrick on this one.
-Waleed
At some point, Moodle needs to start making restrictive decisions for the sake of its own design. Nobody has provided a logical argument why these icons should be included in the navbar. What purpose does it serve? If none, then it should be eliminated. A setting will only create noise.