The Battery Monitor sidebar gadget was designed to be an indicator of the power state of your laptop battery.

Now supports remaining time calculation for laptops that do not support it natively. This gadget is in english and french in the same download, language is detected automatically.

Limitations:

· When you click on a partially transparent part of this gadget, the Power options applet doesn't open. This is caused by a bug (or feature?) in the Sidebar : clicking on partially transparent parts of a gadget doesn't fire any event that the developper can intercept. So the only workaround would be to make a fully opaque background for this gadget... but that would look ugly, like the first version of this gadget was.

· If your laptop doesn't support remaining time calculation natively, this gadget calculates the remaining time based on the time it takes your computer to use a full percent of the remaining battery. As a result, remaining time is not updated as often as you may expect it, since it can be updated only every percent elapsed.


Requirements:

· Laptop with battery