Comment 3 for bug 462267

I can see that it was removed deliberately, and reading the reasons it seems understandable.

I would like to point out that the battstat applet is a very different thing from the g-p-m. It was an applet that could be moved and rearranged, the current charge could be displayed on the panel, the percentage, time remaining were options, it had a horizontal display option, and so on. The g-p-m appears in the notification area. It is not added by "add to panel." It is not the same type of thing and shows far less data.

Saying it uses deprecated methods or has too many bugs is one thing, but please do not promote the g-p-m as a replacement -- the two are not the same at all.

I ran into this in the beta and RC and was hoping it was a bug -- please, *please* remove "battstat applet" from the list of things provided by the gnome-applets package since it has actually been removed from the things provided by said package. Right now, someone (like me) who runs into this *problem* will think it an accident rather than a deliberate move.