As a result of the tooltip removal there is now one piece of information
I cannot find anywhere: the current battery charge while I am on AC. If
I click on the battery indicator it tells me how long I have left to
charge until the battery is full, but it does not tell me how long I
would have left if I unplugged the machine now. This is often useful
information when I am considering whether I can take my laptop off AC
and carry it around the flat, or whether I need to leave it on charge
for when I go out later in the day.

Yes, I can get this information by using a command-line script (such as
the one I used to use to power an OSD battery indicator before I
switched to the GNOME desktop), but really...this is a classic case of
Ubuntu removing perfectly working functionality without having a
replacement. (In this case, the obvious replacement would be to add the
information to the menu, but I agree with many commenters above that
having to click on an indicator to get frequently required information
sucks).

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