Comment 42 for bug 527458

What are people's thought's on a.tom's suggestion of using notify-osd?

With this approach they could be classed as confirmation bubbles ("confirming" the status of the system represented by the menu icon, or is that stretching it a bit?) triggered by mouse-hover (as opposed to mouse-in). "Status" might need some definition. I don't know if there'd be an appropriate bubble for every menu either.

(Just to clarify, talking about tooltips for indicators here)