Comment 7 for bug 527458

The issue seems to be that indicator icon information is not immediately available on mouseover.

Instead of a tooltip, why not just automatically open the menu on mouse-over, similar to KDE's panel menus in OpenSUSE?

It would mean that any indicator icon automatically reveals its options and info on mouseover, and it doesn't require a tooltip. Mousing away could close the menu.

That's a much different interaction than previously discussed, but it would also solve the "show status immediately" problem.