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?

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