Yeah, it sucks. It's pretty hard to fix though, one of those bugs where the multi-week or even multi-month effort to fix it probably isn't ever going to make sense to anybody. (Say IDLE in particular is bothering you; you could probably spend a very short time just hacking it to truncate that string before putting it in the widget, vs. the likely gigantic task of fixing the widget. Everyone is making that same calculation whenever they get annoyed by this.)