Does anybody know how to completely remove the Battery icon from both the status area & status menu?

im getting very irritated looking at it because it's always wrong on my phone since i charge my phone externally, my QBW homemade battery "meter" gives me the REAL battery state.

NOTE: if you want to know what i mean about externally charging go to my battery test & battery mod thread.

i have tryed to edit status-menu.plugins in etc/hildon-desktop but than i get a half battery icon????