Comment 16 for bug 527458

Hi Mark,
Having appropriate-easily-recognizable icon instead of a tooltip to explain it , is good.
But, the problem here is not that we dont understand what the icon is, rather that we are loosing other information that was being displayed quicker/easily.

As mentioned earlier in comment#5 , there isnt a way to display volume 150% in the volume indicator other than adding a new item apart from the volume slider. [if we add the tooltip as an item, it would be unnecessary when the volume is less than 100%, slider is sufficient there.]

RB indicator has lost the playing song position and the album ,bringing all this info to the indicator maybe a little too much in the drop down indicator, but it is an information that was easily presented earlier but many will [or I will] miss now.
Already the RB indicator menu changes size too often depending on the artists/song title, this erratic behavior can be avoided if we move the song info to tooltips.

As was the transmission torrent speeds,and other info ...

To reduce tooltips ugliness , we could make them predictable and do > http://blogs.gnome.org/mccann/2009/11/01/just-leave-it-on-the-counter/

Less is more for sure. But how little do we want? ;-)