Thank you for your bug report, upstream rejected doing a such change on the rational that the encoding information is already available when you mouseover the document tab, see https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=389946
** Bug watch added: GNOME Bug Tracker #389946 https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=389946 ** Changed in: gedit (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided => Wishlist ** Changed in: gedit (Ubuntu) Status: New => Won't Fix ** Also affects: gedit via https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=389946 Importance: Unknown Status: Unknown -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to gedit in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1479910 Title: display current file encoding in editor Status in gedit: Unknown Status in gedit package in Ubuntu: Won't Fix Bug description: e.g. in footer bar ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 15.04 Package: gedit 3.10.4-0ubuntu10 Uname: Linux 4.1.3-040103-generic x86_64 ApportVersion: 2.17.2-0ubuntu1.1 Architecture: amd64 CurrentDesktop: Unity Date: Thu Jul 30 19:55:17 2015 InstallationDate: Installed on 2015-06-08 (52 days ago) InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 14.04 LTS "Trusty Tahr" - Release amd64 (20140417) ProcEnviron: TERM=xterm PATH=(custom, no user) XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set> LANG=de_DE.UTF-8 SHELL=/bin/bash SourcePackage: gedit UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to vivid on 2015-06-09 (51 days ago) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/gedit/+bug/1479910/+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
