Battstat applet

[Erik Slagter]

Can anyone enlighten me on this one, I am probably just dumb and missed 
something critical ;-)

The gnome-panel package in fc9 doesn't have the battstat applet included 
(anymore). This is a rather critical applet for me so I can see in a 
blink of an eye how much time I have left on battery. I am not at all 
interested in automatic power management functions, it's purely the gui 
functionality.

So I checked the revision history of the package which has the following 
remark on battstat: "Removed." That I already noticed, but why? And what 
am I supposed to use as alternative? Otherwise I'd consider this a 
regression.

I also checked alternatives, and found only one, which is to install the 
advance-window-navigator, which has a battery status applet (although 
less informative). I don't think this is a real alternative because
  - lots and lots of errors and indeed errors and crashes
  - requires compositing support including compositing window manager, 
which, in contrary to popular believe, doesn't work on many 
configurations (dual head for instance) and also makes various programs 
terribly slow (firefox...)
  - it cannot coexist with the gnome panel (on the bottom of the screen)
  - the awm panel is only shown at virtual screen #1

There seems to be no other packages that supply a battery status applet.

Anyone have a suggestion?
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