the hard drive seemingly always being spun up

There appear to be two statuses that are reflected by the icon:
1) most of the time it is a box with a shaded horizontal line in side
2) sometimes the horizontal line is displayed brighter

I've always assumed that the 1) indicated a search (disk active / no read) with 2) for actual reads from disk. Is this (still) true?

If a toggle to selectively display the indicator cannot be implemented soon, I suggest that the indicator's size is reduced. The line without the surrounding box would suffice, wouldn't it.


Henno
# 00120 (6GB+18)