Comment 143 for bug 527458

Another quote from Gnome Usability Study:
( http://developer.gnome.org/projects/gup/ut1_report.pdf )

"Two participants missed the ability to click on the GNOME foot icon, one because "there was no tooltip" when he
moused over it and another because he missed the small arrow indicating the foot was a menu."

Please do some research before blindly turning off features new users heavily rely on (and existing users find useful), it's not hard.