Comment 24 for bug 527458

Dear Mark and Ubuntu design team,

please, reconsider Your decision to remove indicator's tooltips completely, at least for LTS release. I know that You are doing Your best to remove visual visual cruft from Ubuntu desktop, but this is serious loss of functionality for lot of people. Removing them as a necessary step _before_ there is a better replacement seem counterproductive to me and possibly will generate lot of negative attention after final release. Imagine all that reviews pointing at this issue as an obvious fail. The always disabled menu item showing the current song for Rhythmbox is mere a workaround, abusing the whole purpose which are menus for (selecting an action, not displaying an information). It's far more worse than tooltips itself.

In worst case scenario, this step can (with other controversial UI changes in Lucid) lead to lose of the favor of the geeks, which are nowadays still the main group spreading the Ubuntu amongst users (family, colleagues, friends), at least here in Czech Republic. These people are usually very passionate about software they use and recommends, and can generate lot of bad fame for Ubuntu. You are not obligated to answer for Your decision to them in any case (Ubuntu's development isn't a democracy), but they are the force which's opinion must be taken into account if You mind the popularity and good name of Ubuntu.

LTS release should not (unless I'm deeply mistaken) be the place for introducing such a controversial changes, even they are mean to be some kind of preparation for better things that will come in non-LTS release. It's hard to hold Your breath for three Years.

Thanks for Your work and visions

Jan Nekvasil