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No way to understand the symbol meaning

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### Description

No way to understand why we have a green multiwindow symbol
We are not showing anywhere in the ui(for eg the star icon we have explanation in the tooltip-Please refer image-2)
Also there it shows only one icon if we have this multiwindow and the star icon applicable for particular extension then in that case I think the multiwindow icon takes precedence but to me I feel it's wrong.

@mrleemurray

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here in the tooltip we have proper explanation of the icon and what it's for
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### Issue Details

Item|Value
---|---
Issue Category|Bug
Target|Visual Studio Code - Insiders
VS Code Version|Code - Insiders 1.129.0-insider (926982696e5076805ed790713fe2417a6eb2c7c2, 2026-07-08T07:16:29Z)
OS Version|Windows_NT x64 10.0.26200

System Info

Item|Value
---|---
VS Code Version|Code - Insiders 1.129.0-insider (926982696e5076805ed790713fe2417a6eb2c7c2, 2026-07-08T07:16:29Z)
OS Version|Windows_NT x64 10.0.26200
CPUs|Intel(R) Core(TM) Ultra 9 285H (16 x 3686)
GPU Status|2d_canvas: enabled
GPU0: VENDOR= 0x8086, DEVICE=0x7d51 [Intel(R) Arc(TM) Pro 140T GPU (32GB)], DRIVER_VENDOR=Intel, DRIVER_VERSION=32.0.101.8132 *ACTIVE*
GPU1: VENDOR= 0x1414, DEVICE=0x008c [Microsoft Basic Render Driver], DRIVER_VERSION=10.0.26100.8521
Machine model name:
Machine model version:
direct_rendering_display_compositor: disabled_off_ok
gpu_compositing: enabled
multiple_raster_threads: enabled_on
opengl: enabled_on
rasterization: enabled
raw_draw: disabled_off_ok
skia_graphite: disabled_off
trees_in_viz: disabled_off
video_decode: enabled
video_encode: enabled
webgl: enabled
webgpu: enabled
webnn: disabled_off
Load (avg)|
Memory (System)|63.46GB (46.68GB free)
Process Argv|--crash-reporter-id 2cf66abe-407f-410c-8777-02924f1549a7
Screen Reader|no
VM|0%
User Agent|Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Code-Insiders/1.129.0-insider Chrome/148.0.7778.271 Electron/42.5.0 Safari/537.36
Installation pure|true

Extensions (8)

Name|Identifier|Author|Version
---|---|---|---
Angular Language Service|angular.ng-template|Angular|22.0.1
Multiple cursor case preserve|cardinal90.multi-cursor-case-preserve|Cardinal90|1.0.5
SVG Gallery|developer2006.svg-gallery|developer2006|3.0.0
console-log|dotcypress.console-log|dotcypress|0.6.2
GitLens — Git supercharged|eamodio.gitlens|eamodio|2026.7.80551
Git Patch|paragdiwan.gitpatch|paragdiwan|0.2.1
Material Icon Theme|pkief.material-icon-theme|PKief|5.36.1
TypeScript 7|typescriptteam.native-preview|TypeScriptTeam|0.20260707.2

Theme extensions: 9

A/B Experiments

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```

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