Comment 4 for bug 270123

To clarify things:

The gnome power manager tray icon now shows the battery icon, and if I move the mouse over, it says Computer uses battery power. Laptop battery 1h 30min remaining (58%). Battery discharging time is estimate. By the way, if in gpm preferences I select to only show the tray icon when battery charging or discharging, I don't get the icon (will only appear when charging)

If I add to the panel the battery charge monitor, it displays and ac plug and says system is run from ac power. If I select extended view, I get the ac plug and a battery, will show no time, but it will show how much % is remaing.

I hope things are a bit clearer now. If not, please ask.

The output:

patrick@patrick-laptop:~$ hal-find-by-capability --capability "ac_adapter" | xargs -n 1 hal-device
udi = '/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/computer_power_supply_ac_adapter_ADP1'
  linux.sysfs_path = '/sys/devices/LNXSYSTM:00/device:00/ACPI0003:00/power_supply/ADP1' (string)
  ac_adapter.present = false (bool)
  info.parent = '/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/computer' (string)
  info.product = 'Generic AC Adapter Device' (string)
  info.udi = '/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/computer_power_supply_ac_adapter_ADP1' (string)
  info.category = 'ac_adapter' (string)
  linux.hotplug_type = 2 (0x2) (int)
  info.capabilities = { 'ac_adapter' } (string list)
  linux.subsystem = 'power_supply' (string)