From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030703 Description of problem: When using a laptop running on AC power without any batteries inserted, the Battery Charge Monitor applet displays an exclamation mark ("!") sign, which indicates a low battery power warning. It does not detect AC power (which would be represented by a plug symbol). The patch attached below should fix this. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): 2.3.7-1 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Let ACPI-based laptop run on AC power. 2. Remove all batteries. 3. Add Battery Charge Monitor to panel. Actual Results: An exclamation mark ("!") sign is displayed next to the battery symbol. Expected Results: A plug symbol should be displayed. Additional info:
Created attachment 94330 [details] Patch to fix the bug above.
Should be sure to report this to bugzilla.gnome.org as well, so the patch is included in the mainline GNOME sources.
It's in GNOME Bugzilla now: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=123548
Fixed in Fedora Core according to the upstream bug