A gear would be incredibly inappropriate in twitter bootstrap. In bootstrap, that icon appears when the menu gets condensed due to a smaller screen size. It is

A gear would be incredibly inappropriate in twitter bootstrap. In bootstrap, that icon appears when the menu gets condensed due to a smaller screen size. It is access to the list of menu items. Look at the example on the Bootstrap site: http://twitter.github.com/bootstrap/examples/hero.html http://twitter.github.com/bootstrap/examples/hero.html Making your browser window smaller makes the icon appear so that you can access the menu of "home", "about", and "contact". That is not a settings icon, it is a list icon.