Comment 4 for bug 445558

The count text that is currently in the bottom bar often shows the number of matching items for a search. Therefore, it should not be in the opposite direction from the search field as the results are, i.e. it should not be above the field when the results are below the field, so putting it in a toolbar at the top would be inappropriate. One possible alternative was to show the count text in a dedicated bar inside the main pane, immediately below the location bar, but that would have clashed with the position of search scope controls in version 2 (and would have been gratuitously inconsistent with the placement of count text in F-Spot and Nautilus).

A similar consideration applies to the future buttons for adding and modifying software sources; they will operate on the items shown in the navigation pane, and therefore should be below the navigation pane, not above it.

As for removing the bar temporarily, if we moved the count text to a different place in version 1 only to move it back when the bar reappeared in version 2, all that would achieve would be to make us look -- to users of version 2 -- as if we hadn't been planning ahead when we actually were.