diff --git a/src/panel/widgets/window-list/toplevel.cpp b/src/panel/widgets/window-list/toplevel.cpp
index 69e5f0e1..d8f4d5c0 100644
--- a/src/panel/widgets/window-list/toplevel.cpp
+++ b/src/panel/widgets/window-list/toplevel.cpp
@@ -22,12 +22,6 @@ namespace
     extern zwlr_foreign_toplevel_handle_v1_listener toplevel_handle_v1_impl;
 }
 
-namespace IconProvider
-{
-    void set_image_from_icon(Gtk::Image& image,
-        std::string app_id_list, int size, int scale);
-}
-
 class WayfireToplevel::impl
 {
     zwlr_foreign_toplevel_handle_v1 *handle, *parent;
@@ -277,8 +271,7 @@ class WayfireToplevel::impl
     void set_app_id(std::string app_id)
     {
         this->app_id = app_id;
-        IconProvider::set_image_from_icon(image, app_id,
-            24, button.get_scale_factor());
+        set_image_from_icon(image, app_id, 24, button.get_scale_factor());
     }
 
     void send_rectangle_hint()
@@ -573,104 +566,3 @@ struct zwlr_foreign_toplevel_handle_v1_listener toplevel_handle_v1_impl = {
     .parent       = handle_toplevel_parent
 };
 }
-
-/* Icon loading functions */
-namespace IconProvider
-{
-    using Icon = Glib::RefPtr<Gio::Icon>;
-
-    namespace
-    {
-        std::string tolower(std::string str)
-        {
-            for (auto& c : str)
-                c = std::tolower(c);
-            return str;
-        }
-    }
-
-    /* Gio::DesktopAppInfo
-     *
-     * Usually knowing the app_id, we can get a desktop app info from Gio
-     * The filename is either the app_id + ".desktop" or lower_app_id + ".desktop" */
-    Icon get_from_desktop_app_info(std::string app_id)
-    {
-        Glib::RefPtr<Gio::DesktopAppInfo> app_info;
-
-        std::vector<std::string> prefixes = {
-            "",
-            "/usr/share/applications/",
-            "/usr/share/applications/kde/",
-            "/usr/share/applications/org.kde.",
-            "/usr/local/share/applications/",
-            "/usr/local/share/applications/org.kde.",
-        };
-
-        std::vector<std::string> app_id_variations = {
-            app_id,
-            tolower(app_id),
-        };
-
-        std::vector<std::string> suffixes = {
-            "",
-            ".desktop"
-        };
-
-        for (auto& prefix : prefixes)
-        {
-            for (auto& id : app_id_variations)
-            {
-                for (auto& suffix : suffixes)
-                {
-                    if (!app_info)
-                    {
-                        app_info = Gio::DesktopAppInfo
-                            ::create_from_filename(prefix + id + suffix);
-                    }
-                }
-            }
-        }
-
-        if (app_info) // success
-            return app_info->get_icon();
-
-        return Icon{};
-    }
-
-    /* Second method: Just look up the built-in icon theme,
-     * perhaps some icon can be found there */
-
-    void set_image_from_icon(Gtk::Image& image,
-        std::string app_id_list, int size, int scale)
-    {
-        std::string app_id;
-        std::istringstream stream(app_id_list);
-
-        /* Wayfire sends a list of app-id's in space separated format, other compositors
-         * send a single app-id, but in any case this works fine */
-        while (stream >> app_id)
-        {
-            auto icon = get_from_desktop_app_info(app_id);
-            std::string icon_name = "unknown";
-
-            if (!icon)
-            {
-                /* Perhaps no desktop app info, but we might still be able to
-                 * get an icon directly from the icon theme */
-                if (Gtk::IconTheme::get_default()->lookup_icon(app_id, 24))
-                    icon_name = app_id;
-            } else
-            {
-                icon_name = icon->to_string();
-            }
-
-            WfIconLoadOptions options;
-            options.user_scale = scale;
-            set_image_icon(image, icon_name, size, options);
-
-            /* finally found some icon */
-            if (icon_name != "unknown")
-                break;
-        }
-    }
-};