cant find battery capacity info

I have a dell latitude with fedora core 3 on it. If i use KDE it shows the little battery icon in the corner but if i use gnome it doesnt and i cant figure out how to enable it if its possible. is there an option for this somewhere? thanks in advance

If you have acpi working then all you do is right click at the top panel where applications and actions are listed. Choose + to panel option scroll down and find battery and add. Voila.