What you are showing are notifications, not an indicator. Changing the title according, could you also report it upstream on https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-shell/issues? (they are the ones deciding about the design, also unsure those would be useful if password entry indicate the status)
** Changed in: gnome-shell (Ubuntu) Status: Incomplete => New ** Summary changed: - Caps Lock indicator on screen + Caps Lock status notifications -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to gnome-shell in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1829651 Title: Caps Lock status notifications Status in gnome-shell package in Ubuntu: New Bug description: this is suggestion more than a bug report. ubuntu has default cool on screen indicators for volume control, display brightness ..ie. but there is no Caps Lock on screen indicator by default. i am currently using Lenovo ThinkPad X230 and unfortunately there is no led indicator light on the keyboard for caps lock. could you please consider putting caps lock on screen indicator by default to ubuntu? it would be cool if you could. thanks. --- ProblemType: Bug ApportVersion: 2.20.9-0ubuntu7.6 Architecture: amd64 CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME DisplayManager: gdm3 DistroRelease: Ubuntu 18.04 InstallationDate: Installed on 2019-05-14 (4 days ago) InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 18.04.2 LTS "Bionic Beaver" - Release amd64 (20190210) Package: gnome-shell 3.28.3+git20190124-0ubuntu18.04.2 PackageArchitecture: amd64 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.18.0-20.21~18.04.1-generic 4.18.20 Tags: bionic Uname: Linux 4.18.0-20-generic x86_64 UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install) UserGroups: adm cdrom dip lpadmin plugdev sambashare sudo _MarkForUpload: True To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-shell/+bug/1829651/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp