Not-connected message too long

[mark-hahn]

I get the not-connected message in the sidebar quite often (every minute or so). This happens on two different printers. This isn't too big a problem since I manually read the weight and I can wait a few seconds.

The real problem is that the message is so long that the whole sidebar jumps down. This is extremely annoying when reading something below it. Could the message just read "--- g" when this happens? This is a bit of a standard in UIs.

P.S. It would be nice if there were a long timeout for the message since the weight doesn't change very fast. Then we wouldn't see it at all.