Comment 198 for bug 527458

Ha! I just discovered this bug report and now I know why I have been losing tool-tips on indicator applets over the past few versions. The decision(s) to remove or drastically change functionality like this [without giving the user an adequate and easy way to get the functionality back] are going to ruin Ubuntu. The is the 2nd major horrible design decision in this release that I am aware of to date. The other being the overlay scroll bars and no convenient way to revert to classical scroll bars that have been around for what, freaking ever? And It's ironic that the same class of annoyances that drove one away from Windows and to Ubuntu, would also wind up driving one away from Ubuntu. I just realized that I have been using, praising, installing and recommending Ubuntu for about 5 years; and I hope this doesn't change but it may soon.

I'm not going to repeat any arguments for the tooltips since in my opinion they are already well supported by many earlier in this thread and yet even though they seem to me to outweigh and outnumber all the arguments against tooltips, they are essentially ignored and displaced with an illegitimate oligarchical design decision based on a utopian ideal.

This thread is the epitome of ridiculousness. That it should take nearly 200 hundred comments to try and get back a feature that never should have been removed to begin with. I'm saving a copy of it because I think it makes a great development anti-pattern.