Vladimir, thanks for this report. It's true that "Estimating..." is quite long. (Though it's not the longest thing that can appear in an indicator menu title: that honor belongs to your login name.)
It's important that we show something more than just the icon, for people who are expecting to see an estimate there. Otherwise they might think they've turned off the estimate by accident. Once bug 1234458 is fixed, the "Estimating..." string will be present for 30 seconds maximum. I think that's brief enough to put up with it. And conversely, if we used a special-purpose icon instead, it wouldn't be visible for long enough for people to become familiar with it. For those reasons, I'm declining this suggestion. ** Changed in: indicator-power (Ubuntu) Status: Incomplete => Invalid -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of DX Packages, which is subscribed to indicator-power in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1267642 Title: “Estimating…” in indicator’s title is too long Status in Ayatana Design: New Status in “indicator-power” package in Ubuntu: Invalid Bug description: If "Show Time in Menu Bar" activated in power indicator it's sometimes shows strings in indicator such as "estimating...". Such strings occupies quite a lot of space in comparison to other icons in indicator bar and looks ugly. I suggest to replace such strings with icons or doesn't show at all. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 13.10 Package: indicator-power 12.10.6+13.10.20131008-0ubuntu1 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.11.0-15.23-generic 3.11.10 Uname: Linux 3.11.0-15-generic x86_64 ApportVersion: 2.12.5-0ubuntu2.2 Architecture: amd64 CheckboxSubmission: 3d16077c4fdd6a017d47f6e3dc4f3c54 CheckboxSystem: b633b4f40868d491c2ae5b50030ce6f3 Date: Fri Jan 10 03:13:35 2014 InstallationDate: Installed on 2014-01-01 (8 days ago) InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 13.10 "Saucy Salamander" - Release amd64 (20131016.1) MarkForUpload: True SourcePackage: indicator-power UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ayatana-design/+bug/1267642/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~dx-packages Post to : dx-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~dx-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp