[Kde-announce-apps] KPowersave v0.6.2-stable

[Danny Kukawka]

Name: KPowersave
Version: v0.6.2-stable
Type: System Tool
Depend: KDE 3.4.x
License: GPL
Homepage: http://freshmeat.net/projects/kpowersave
More Info:
http://www.kde-apps.org/content/show.php?content=29295

Description:
 KPowersave is the KDE frontend for the powersave
daemon. It provides battery monitoring, suspend/
standby triggers and many more features for KDE
(and GNOME). 

Current feature list:
- support ACPI and APM
- trigger suspend to disk/ram and standby
- switch cpu frequency policy (between:
performance, dynamic and powersave)
- applet icon with info about AC state, and
battery fill/(warning) states
- applet tooltip with battery fill and remaining
battery time/percentage info
- scheme specific settings (see below)
- autosuspend (to suspend if a user was a defined
time inactive)
- a global and scheme specific configurable
blacklist with programmes to prevent autosuspend
(e.g. videoplayer and cd burning tools)
- trigger lock screen on lidclose ans suspend and
select the lock methode
- KNotify support for many events
- online help: en, hu, nb, cs, pt, fi, de
- localisations: bg, cs, da, de, el, es, fi, fr,
hu, it, ja, km, nb, nl, pa, pl, pt_BR, pt, ru, sk,
sl_SI, sv, tr, uk, zh_CN, zh_TW

- KPowersave support schemes with following
configurable specific settings for:
  * screensaver/DPMS
  * brightness (if supported by hardware)
  * autosuspend
  * scheme specific blacklist for autosuspend

- KPowersave contains a detailed information
dialog (on left mouse button on the applet icon):
  * CPU Frequency information
  * Battery information
  * current scheme and CPU Freq. policy, AC and
powersave state

To run KPowersave you need currently:
- powersave/powersave-libs >= 0.12.7
(http://sourceforge.net/projects/powersave/)
- dbus/dbus-qt3 >= 0.35.2
(http://www.freedesktop.org/Software/dbus) 
- HAL >=0.5.4
(http://www.freedesktop.org/Software/hal)

For (additional) powersave dependencies see the
project homepage and documentation. 

If you run KPowersave on KDE you can remove
klaptop from your system. KPowersave was developed
as a replacement.

KPowersave and powersave are (as we know) running
on this distributions:
* SUSE Linux (defaultly, available RPMs are for
10.0, for 10.1 see factory repository
(www.opensuse.org), for 9.2/9.3 older version on
sf.net available)
* ALTLinux: defaultly in 3.0, v0.5.0 (see:
ftp://ftp.altlinux.ru/pub/distributions/ALTLinux/3.0/files/i586/RPMS/)
* K/Ubuntu: from universe repository (Dapper
Drake) or for 'Breezy Badger' from
http://www.teco.edu/~biebl/ubuntu (Thanks to
Michael Biebl)
* Debian (unstable/testing): available via
'apt-get install kpowersave' 
* Fedora Core 5 (see sf.net project homepage for
needed dbus-qt3 rpm and for the src rpm)
* Fedora Core 4 (see sf.net project homepage, also
for the src rpm and HAL/DBUS update rpms)
* Mandriva 2006.1 (see sf.net project homepage,
also for src rpms)
* Gentoo (ebuilds see download link)
* Arch Linux PKGBUILD (for powersave see unstable
tree: http://archlinux.org/packages.php?id=9701)
* Slackware (see sf.net project page or:
http://www.mytux.org/content/viewslackpackage.php)

RPMs and porting information for other
distributions would be appreciated.

To get always actual news about updates and new
versions subscribe to new releases at the project
homepage: http://freshmeat.net/projects/kpowersave

-----------------
Copyright (C) 2004-2006 by:
 * Danny Kukawka 
 * Thomas Renninger 

Changelog:
 For current changelog and news see:
http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?release_id=416743&group_id=124576


02 July 06:
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* updated to v0.6.2-stable:
- KPowersave depends now on powersave >= 0.12.18
- fixed bugs:
  * sf.net #1483392/ SUSE #177792: set changes for
autosuspend state via DCOP back to the applet
menu, added DCOP functions to set the current
scheme, the current CPUFreq policy and to
open/close the detailed dialog
  * sf.net #1483392/ SUSE #177788,180000: added
workaround to fix two bugs in the DPMS- and
Screensaver extension of X, related to autosuspend
and detect user inactivity (DPMS timeouts are
abstracted from current idle time, but shouldn't /
DPMS timeouts are currently additive but
shouldn*'t). This fix problems with autosuspend if
the timeout is longer than the DPMS timeouts.
  * SUSE #168619: changed errorhandling if HAL,
DBUS or the powersave daemon is not running or if
the user has not the needed rights to access the
powersave daemon via DBUS. Added new errormessages
and translations.
  * SUSE #182515: Changed configure dialog to
respect rules for DPMS timeouts
  * SUSE #176782: patch from Timo Hönig  to allow
(if supported and enabled in the scheme) change
brighness via mousewheel over the applet icon.
  * SUSE (SLED) #183745: fixed detection of SUSE
Linux/SLES/SLED and added configure option to
force SLES/SLED as distro with --enable-suse-sles.
Fixed bugzilla link for SLED/SLES
  * SUSE #184076: fixed wrong command to start
dbus daemon in errormessage.
  * added additional check before autosuspend if
this was disabled via applet
- added new configure check to detect
Ubuntu/Kubuntu
- changed link to Ubuntu bugzilla to launchpad.net
and use now the same link for applet menu entry
"Report a bug ..." if compiled for Ubuntu/Kubuntu
- updated default blacklist for autosuspend with
gmplayer,kaffeine,xine,mencoder
- updated translation:
cs,de,es,fi,fr,hu,it,km,pl,pt_BR,zh_CN,zh_TW
- updated (cs) and fixed translation of eventsrc
for KNotify
- fixed and updated code documentation

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27 Jun 06:
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* updated screenshots ... scheduled update to
v0.6.2 for end of the week.
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22 May 06:
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* added x86_64 rpms for Mandriva 2006, Fedora Core
4 and Fedora Core 5 (new x86_64 powersave rpms
also available, for FC4 you need actual HAL/DBUS
packages, you can find rpms on the powersave
project website)
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0.5.11-rc5]
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Feb 06, v0.5.8-rc2]
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06, v0.5.5]
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