Comment 4 for bug 527458

I believe the official reason for dropping tooltips is because they want to make these application indicators more similar to menus. But, as I had already mentioned on #ayatana sometime back, when designed like this, the application indicators act more like toolbar icons that have drop-down menus rather than the menus you see at the top of each of your windows. The result of that discussion/argument, from my logs was:

2010-02-23 03:42:44<jono> tedg, can you have a tooltip for the app indicator icon?
2010-02-23 03:42:49<jono> that seems sane to me
2010-02-23 03:44:07<tedg> jono: Not for Lucid. I imagine we'll reopen the discussion for Meandering Marmot. I'm not against them. I'm just not sure they're required. With the new placement the Fedora guys did they're not as annoying on menus, so that helps a ton.
2010-02-23 03:44:35<jono> hyperair, so why don't we discuss this for Lucid+1? we are a bit late in the cycle to do this now
2010-02-23 03:44:36<tedg> jono: I think the two features "up for discussion" right now for M is scroll wheel and tooltips.
2010-02-23 03:44:38<jono> does that sound ok?
2010-02-23 03:44:48<hyperair> that sounds fine.