Comment 96 for bug 527458

Mark Shuttleworth's comment on this issue on AskMark in OpenWeek Lucid:-

<akgraner> <bilalakhtar> QUESTION: What are your opinions on Bug 527458 (https://bugs.launchpad.net/indicator-application/+bug/527458 ) and the decision to deprecate tooltips from the panel indicators? Will tooltips come back in Maverick?
<sabdfl> i've commented on the bug, for anyone who wants to read the thread there
<sabdfl> in short, i think tooltips are most often a disaster
<sabdfl> because there is a slot there, people put stuff in it
<sabdfl> even if they don't have to
<sabdfl> so we end up with a whole lot of really crap and useless tooltips that just clutter up the interface
<sabdfl> and because they have tooltips, they don't do the extra work to think through the most important info to convey in the underlying asset
<sabdfl> because hey, you can just stuff all the detail in a tooltip!
<sabdfl> i've done it myself, in the past
<sabdfl> i'm ashamed
<sabdfl> but i'm cured
<sabdfl> and so no, i don't think the tooltips will come back
<sabdfl> but it's a 90% certainty for me, perhaps someone will convince me otherwise
<sabdfl> but they'd have to convince a few other people, who might convince me :-)