Comment 82 for bug 527458

I use the battery % tooltip constantly to see how much battery charge I have. Now I must click on the battery indicator, then click on the time remaining, then scroll down to find the percentage of battery power left, then close the window to get back to what I was doing.

Even if the tool tip was as cluttering as Mark says, it was still a better solution to my needs than having to interrupt my workflow.

Ubuntu changing things is not a problem, but locking me in without the option to have what I need like a mac is downright infuriating. I use Linux precisely because of the liberty and choice that, until now, came with it.

Mark's argument for reducing clutter by removing tool tips is bogus and inconsistent. There are tool tips allover lucid's design that I don't particularly care about. Hover over any portion other than the useful battery, mail, and volume, and you'll get a tool tip. Even the sef-explanatory "Applications" "Places" and "System" have tool tip descriptions. It's on every window tab, simply repeating information that is right in the title. I could live without those tool tips, but the tool tips that used to give me dynamic and important data are now gone to reduce visual cruft? That's not just inconsistent and unpopular, that's evil.

Tool tips are used precisely because they don't clutter. They only show when you tease them out with the tickle of a mouse cursor. Mark, please, even if you disagree with me, can us users at least have a choice in the matter by giving us a setting?