The little secret is that Laptop battery - Details still shows the 'percentage' of your battery, so you can have a better guesstimate than the little red bar that sits at red for 20mins or so.
Pity that the functionality has devolved since 10.04, though - it's getting harder and harder to use the Ubuntu-certified laptop with each release. -- Battery life estimation never comes around https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/629258 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to gnome-power-manager in ubuntu. -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs