I understand Mark's reasoning IF tooltips are only used to tell me what
something is, which seems to be an assumption Mark is making.  On an
application's toolbar I might need a tooltip to tell me what various
buttons do, but I don't need a tooltip to tell me what the volume
control or rhythmbox icon are in the panel.

But I think what's missing is the fact that often these tooltips for
panel items present additional information that would otherwise require
clicking.  Take Rhythmbox, for example.  The tooltip can tell me what
song is playing.  Right now, if I'm working on something and want to
quickly check what the current song is, I have to click on the Rhythmbox
icon to pull down the menu which displays it, then click outside the
menu to focus back on the application I was working in.  With a tooltip,
there is no clicking and the application I'm working in never loses
focus.

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please include status messages/tooltips
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/527458
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