[Kde-announce-apps] KPowersave v0.6.1-stable

[Danny Kukawka]

Name: KPowersave
Version: v0.6.1-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)
* 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

14 May 06:
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* updated to v0.6.1-stable:
- SUSE bug #167296: fixed tooltip and removed
unneeded checks for battery related infos. Should
fix display wrong remaining time on charging with
APM
- SUSE bug #165462: removed utf8 tag from eventsrc
which results in "unknown source ..." message in
knotify dialog
- SUSE bug #168838: event for
resumeFromSuspendToDisk displayed twice in knotify
dialog (typo and translation issue in eventsrc)
- fixed detailed dialog for multiprocessor/-core
machines without CPUFreq or throttling support and
offline CPUs/Cores
- updated translations (fi,km,pl,ru) including
desktop files and eventsrc (ru, from Anton
Farygin)
- added configure check for dbus-1-qt3-devel
headers
- updated README (ALT Linux bugzilla link)
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20 Apr 06:
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* removed link to SUSE source rpm to add link to
Slackware tgz packages (v0.6.0)and to ALT Linux
rpms (v0.5.0). 
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20 Apr 06:
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* added link to Fedora Core 5 packages. Please
note: You need to install the dbus-qt3 package for
KPowersave. You can find the rpm on the powersave
sf.net homepage
(https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=124576&package_id=176793&release_id=411568).
If you have problems to get powersave running,
disable SELinux for acpi(d) or complete (patches
are welcome).
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12 Apr 06:
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* added Arch Linux PKGBUILD link for (K)Powersave 
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06, 0.5.10-rc4]
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Feb 06, v0.5.7-rc1]
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v0.5.4]
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