The information given by status bar of Obi form is
1. not persistent
2. No information is there for some of operations.
Some times the transport bar state changes by itself e.g.
Pause playback and wait for some time, the pause status shown by status bar changes to Ready by itself.
and some operations like recording, recording paused are not reflected in status bar.
More observations will be provided
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I removed the timer that cleared the status message in revision 2967. Now we need to update the status message more often.