Review Request: Add a tooltip to battery monitor applet

[Aaron J. Seigo]

On October 30, 2009, Chani wrote:
> percentages are the bogus number :P it's like giving a latitude and
>  longitude instead of a street address.

except my street address doesn't change just because i drive there in a car 
instead of walk.

a more accurate analogy would be offering a travel time ("travel for 13 
minutes, take a left and travel for 14 more") instead of a street address. 
what if there's traffic or i speed? what if i'm biking instead of driving? 
what if i'm walking?

giving numbers that are "guestimates" which is what these numbers can probably 
ever be is a great way to reinforce in people that "computers try to be smart 
but are fragile and wrong, especially mine" which IME is a huge reason why 
people like them less than they should.

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