[Kde-announce-apps] KPowersave 0.5.9-rc3

[Danny Kukawka]

Name: KPowersave
Version: 0.5.9-rc3
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 information about AC state,
battery fill and battery (warning) states
- applet tooltip with information about battery
fill and remaining battery time/percentage
- scheme specific settings (see below)
- autosuspend (to suspend the machine if the user
is a defined time inactive)
- a global and scheme specific configurable
blacklist with programmes which prevent
autosuspend (e.g. videoplayer and cd burning
tools)
- trigger lock screen and select the lock methode
- KNotify support for many events
- online help: en, hu, nb, cs, pt, fi
- 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 state,
powersave state

To run KPowersave you need currently:
- powersave >= 0.12.1
(http://sourceforge.net/projects/powersave/)
- dbus >= 0.35.2
(http://www.freedesktop.org/Software/dbus) 
- HAL >=0.5.4
(http://www.freedesktop.org/Software/hal)

The available RPMs are currently only for
SUSE/openSUSE 10.0 (older versions also for SUSE
9.2/9.3). RPMs for 10.1 /Alpha/Beta are available
in the SUSE factory repository (see
www.opensuse.org). 

KPowersave and powersave are also running on other
distributions:
* ALTLinux:
http://altlinux.org/index.php?module=sisyphus&package=kpowersave
(defaultly, v0.4.5)
* 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 4 (see project homepage)

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

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

Changelog:
 For current changelog and news see:
http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?release_id=395174&group_id=124576

01 Mar 06:
* added new version 0.5.9 [rc3] with:
- need now powersave >= 0.12.1 (because of APM and
battery fixes)
- fixed battery and processor information for APM
and machines without CPU freq or throttling
support
- fixed battery state in the detailed dialog if no
battery is available
- translation and handbook updates/fixes
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20 Feb 06:
* added new version 0.5.8 [rc2] with:
- removed sound settings and replaced with KNotify
integration, added more events
- fixed support for throttling CPUs and size of
battery bars in the detailed dialog
- fixed autosuspend for FC4
- bugfixes, cleanups, translation updates
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13 Feb 06:
* added new version 0.5.7
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06 Feb 06:
* added new version 0.5.6
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30 Jan 06:
 * released version 0.5.5
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23 Jan 06:
 * released version 0.5.4
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17 Jan 06:
 * released version 0.5.3
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11 Jan 06: 
 * released version 0.5.2
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