Comment 2 for bug 694864

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make BatteryStatus better.
And sorry for delay.

> set self.package_power to False initially

Right, so I guess, that it should be set to "False" by default.
However, I'm not a familiar with XFCE very well, but via gconf-editor you can switch integration of gnome-power-manager in battery-status menu using commands:
 - for switch on:
 $ gconftool --set --type bool /apps/battery_status/show_power 1
 - for switch off:
 $ gconftool --set --type bool /apps/battery_status/show_power 0

Is that working in XFCE? Is that working as it should?