Battery Status is a project for GNOME, that shows information about laptop battery state. It comes with a lot of additional features, so usual icon of GNOME Power Manager can be removed from Notification/Indicator Area. Dont worry about the battery icon in Ubuntu being a part of the Indicator Applet, when you first add Battery Status to the panel, it will ask to remove the default battery icon (but will keep the Indicator Applet). Gnomes Power Manager battery icon only shows the remaining battery power. But using the Battery Status applet, the user can access: Battery Status dialog Power Statistics (provided by GNOME Power Manager) "Show" setting CPU frequency scaling (provided by gnome-applets/cpufreq-applet) Power Management preferences (provided by GNOME Power Manager) You can also set the icon display the remaining battery (either minutes or percentage) in the notification area. But thats not all Battery Status can do and Battery Status 0.1 has just...