This bug has been opened here: https://bugzilla.ubuntu.com/12518

"When you turn off the right pane in EOG (View->Image Information), the status
bar sometimes fails to display the image basic infos (dimension and file size).
It looks like it will only display them, if the image is scaled down (probably
because it then prints the zoom factor, which must force it to also display the
image infos ?). But if the image is small enough to be displayed in full size,
then the status bar won't show any information. These info should be displayed
all the time, not just when the image is too large to fit the screen.

I tried to make a screenshot illustrating the problem, see attached.

https://bugzilla.ubuntu.com/attachment.cgi?id=2938
Info.... or no info ? That is the question...."