Comment 216 for bug 527458

Cas, linking to lmgtfy.com is rude.

Even worse, the top Google result is out of date, describing the 11.04 battery indicator which was changed in 11.10 to not include an option to show the battery percentage. The Ubuntu designers currently seem to think that people would rather see the time remaining and an option to show percentage instead is not that important. It's unclear whether they'd merge in a patch if it were written but it might be worth writing a patch and trying to get it in. That is bug 811777.