Folks, here it is a deskop widget to display the battery level as a percentage.

Its in the desktop section as batlevel.
You need t enable extras-devel repository.

One thing I havent figured out completely is how to add it to the desktop add widgets menu, currenly it will appear in add shortcut as an app but when started it will open as a desktop widget.
It seems deskop widgets need to be libraries and mine is a binary, while i figure out the technicalities related to this feel free to play with this and discuss any bugs/improvements.

This is a very simple display, I will try adding more functional/eye-candy stuff if I dont get busy with some other projects. But Id like to hear your ideas.
just to let you know Im currently working on making it look more like a battery than a progress bar

Three ways to start it.

1. from X terminal run the command
run_batlevel

2. from the desktop , click add a shortcut , choose batlevel, and then click on the shortcut ( the shortcut can be deleted later as the widget will appear on the desktop )

3. The usual way, go to the applications menu and run the installed app.

Last but not the least, maemo fellow members have been most helpful in helping create this app . Hope the maemo spirit lives on and grows stronger , ok enough of the emotions now Ill let you guys develop more on this.

cheers,