Indicator Applet should display tooltips

[Paul Lambert]

Hovering over an indicator-applet icon should display a relevant tooltip.

Examples:
Hovering over the volume icon should display the volume information (eg: 90% Volume)
Hovering over Rhythmbox icon should display the current track information (eg: hot chip - boy from school)
Hovering over messaging icon should display the amount of unread messages (eg: new emails - 2, new messages: 3...)

the current lack of tooltips is especially annoying when checking what song is playing in rhythmbox since it either means restoring the rhythmbox window or switching workspaces.

[Jan Nekvasil (jan-nekvasil)]

I strongly agree. The lack of tooltips is some kind of regression to the previous state of things. Transmission and battery icons are another example where useful information shoud be displayed in tooltips (as they were before).

[Lucian Adrian Grijincu (lucian.grijincu)]

The wiki page (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MessagingMenu/) says this:
   Neither the menu nor any of its items should have a tooltip.

There is no explanation for this behavior.

And it is a regression from other versions at it provides less functionality that it previously did.

[Oliver Joos (oliver-joos)]

+1 !! Changing volume gets harder and harder! :-(

I remember (was it Breezy Badger?) one of my very first impressions of Ubuntu was: "Wow! Changing volume without even one click and immediately a tooltip shows the exact level in % - cool! Some releases later the popup did not show up anymore while scrolling, but only after waiting 1 sec. Then (since pulseaudio) I cannot add a second volume-applet to adjust volume of headphone jack. Later the wheel steps were decreased to tiny 1% or so, which rendered wheel support almost useless. And now (with indicator-applet) wheel support and tooltips are gone altogether. This is not good!

I think, a "Linux for human beings" deserves better. So please raise its importance and help fixing this for Lucid LTS. (see bug #523369 for missing wheel support)

[Pavol Klačanský (pavolzetor-deactivatedaccount)]

yeah, it's totally annoying, I have to open tranmission if I want check speed or I have to open rhythmbox to change volume, please, we need it back

[Marco Trevisan (Treviño) (3v1n0)]

I do agree... I loved to change my volume just using the scrolling wheel over the volume applet; now I can still do it, but I can't see the new volume level, it sucks! :/