Extra indicator item (text) appears next to graphs

[el_gallo_azul]

1) The release of Ubuntu you are using, via 'lsb_release -rd' or System -> About Ubuntu

`el_gallo_azul@W2600CR-850Pro:~$ lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu 16.04.2 LTS
Release: 16.04`

2) The version of the package you are using, via 'apt-cache policy pkgname' or by checking in Software Center

`el_gallo_azul@W2600CR-850Pro:~$ apt-cache policy indicator-multiload
indicator-multiload:
  Installed: 0.4-0ubuntu4
  Candidate: 0.4-0ubuntu4
  Version table:
 *** 0.4-0ubuntu4 500
        500 http://mirror.optus.net/ubuntu xenial/universe amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
`

3) What you expected to happen

The same 6 graphs that I chose years ago continue to appear on-screen unchanged

4) What happened instead

A couple of days ago, I noticed a new item had appeared immediately adjacent to my 6 selected Indicator items (the graphs), and it is text which says "Disk X kB/s/Y kB/s". I'll try to attach a screenshot I took of it.

Note that yesterday, I went to Preferences > Indicator items... and saw that above my first chosen indicator item "CPU $(percent(cpu.inuse))" there appeared an additional, apparently empty, line. I selected the empty line, clicked "Remove", and the additional text disappeared from where it had been adjacent to the indicator-multiload graphs.

When I saw the text there next to the graphs again this morning, I tried the same thing, but the additional empty line was not there for me to Remove.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.04
Package: indicator-multiload 0.4-0ubuntu4
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.4.0-64.85-generic 4.4.44
Uname: Linux 4.4.0-64-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia_uvm nvidia_drm nvidia_modeset nvidia
ApportVersion: 2.20.1-0ubuntu2.5
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: Unity
Date: Sat Feb 25 09:16:50 2017
InstallationDate: Installed on 2014-10-14 (864 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 14.04 LTS "Trusty Tahr" - Release amd64 (20140417)
SourcePackage: indicator-multiload
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to xenial on 2016-08-26 (182 days ago)

[el_gallo_azul (el-gallo-azul)]

The text item that appears next to the graphs changed a couple of days ago, and is now "Load" instead of "Disk.

[Michael Hofmann (mh21)]

you can use the scroll wheel when hovering above the indicator to change the text, the user interface for this feature sucks :-(

[el_gallo_azul (el-gallo-azul)]

Many thanks for pointing that out @mh21. I had never noticed.

Do you happen to know of any way to get rid of it? I got my hopes up that scrolling to one extreme would make it go away, but alas it doesn't.

This additional text item must have been included in a recent update of the application.

[Michael Hofmann (mh21)]

Normally that is what the empty line is good for. If you just remove everything in 'Preferences > Indicator items...', the text will go away, too.

[el_gallo_azul (el-gallo-azul)]

Thanks @mh21.

I currently have the 6 indicator items that I want, which are the 6 graphs, but I also have the text item at the end.

As I described in my 2nd and 3rd paragraphs under "4) What happened instead" in my original bug report, I am not able to get rid of the text now, because there is no empty line within `indicator-multiload` > Preferences > Indicator items...

I am about to remove EVERYTHING in Indicator items... as you suggest. I kept a screenshot of my preferences, because it seems to me that I will have to configure them again.

This matter is a bug in my opinion, because I am not able to get rid of the text.

It would not be a bug if the text disappeared by deleting an empty line in Indicator items....

[el_gallo_azul (el-gallo-azul)]

Hooray. That worked.

I deleted EVERYTHING in Indicator items..., however the graphs are still there (even after a reboot). The additional text item is gone.

However, this is still a bug. The graphs used to be the Indicator items..., such that removing an Indicator item... would remove the selected graph.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[bitinerant (bitinerant)]

I propose that the scroll behavior that changes or removes the text to the right of the graphs (comment #3) is a bug. I'm been trying to get rid of this "extra text" for a couple of days now and it took me locating this bug report to find the fix.

[John Pye (jdpipe)]

I had this problem too. It is completely impossible to self-discover the solution to this problem, due to the poor UI design.

The developer probably wanted to have the feature of adding text to the indicator, but implemented it in such a way that users can't really discover how to turn it on or off, and usually only do so accidentally, eg by removing the extra line in 'indicator items' list (it is not apparent why that line exists; it looks like a bug).

When this text started appearing, I thought that it was some array-length bug where n+1 items were being shown in the indicator instead of the selected number. It didn't even occur to me that that would be by design...