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.

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Don't display a status bar
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/445558
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