Comment 64 for bug 527458

I agree with Colin Kern's comments in comment 30.

I don't need a tooltip to tell me what an icon in the panel _is_ (as long as the icon has been properly designed to be self-explanatory). However, often these tooltips for panel items present additional information that would otherwise require clicking.

Mark Shuttleworth's argument about introducing additional translation requirements does not apply in all cases - numbers and symbols are universally understood. This applies to the abovementioned volume % and Transmission up/down transfer rates and Transmission % complete of torrent files.

Also, an LTS is not the place to be making these sorts of changes.

Finally, as a few other people have said, I want to know how I can change this behaviour back to how it was previously. And if the worst occurs and tooltips do not return in Ubuntu 10.10 I do not want my change reverted when I upgrade - IIRC this is against Debian's human-computer interaction guidelines.