Just curious about time capsule plus time machine

so i was checking my time machine settings and instead of the regular time machine icons they seem to keep changing and also display the amount of space used or available:
shouldnt the drive be the same icon with the clock on it and display the amount of space left on the Timecapsule drive?
Btw Data (Time Machine) = the drive all my BackUps goto
Media (Time Capsule) = network drive attached with my media files
thanks!!

Oh okay, thank you!
yeah i noticed in Snow Leopard it did that too.
same with viewing my other computers on the network in finders sidebar.
it just showed the NAME and not the Icon for the computer, very weird!

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