No clear indication if program is running

As of Karmic A6, the indicator applet doesn't helpfully tell me what programs are running and what ones are not. I can only guess because the program description is no longer there. See the screenshot. Empathy is a running program, and the others are not. However, it all just looks like an ugly bloat of text. It just doesn't work intuitively, and I believe this qualifies as a UI bug.

There should be some sort of indication that a program is running, such as showing the program's icon. So, for this case, Empathy could have the program icon to the left where there is white space to indicate that it is running. Alternatively, Empathy could be separated from the inactive programs via a more distinct line between programs (more bold). Any idea would be welcome, as long as it becomes more intuitive, which it currently is not.