[Kde-announce-apps] KPowersave v0.7.1-unstable

Danny Kukawka danny.kukawka at web.de
Tue Nov 21 16:49:12 CET 2006


Name: KPowersave
Version: v0.7.1-unstable
Type: System Tool
Depend: KDE 3.5.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
powermanagement. It provides battery monitoring,
suspend/ standby triggers and many more features
for KDE (and GNOME). 

Current feature list:
- support ACPI, APM (and PMU since 0.7.x)
- 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:
- dbus/dbus-qt3 >= 0.6
(http://www.freedesktop.org/Software/dbus) 
- HAL >=0.5.8.1
(http://www.freedesktop.org/Software/hal)

For KPowersave = 0.12.20
(http://sourceforge.net/projects/powersave/)

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 10.1/10.2 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 or from Cooker/2007 contrib
tree)
* 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)
* (Simply)Mephis (since 6.0 default solution)
* FOX Linux (default)
* RR/RR64 Linux (default)
* PLD Linux (devel tree)
* Aurox (devel tree)
* Pardus
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:
 NEWS (05. Nov 2006): 

I work currently on a new version of KPowersave
which no longer depend on the powersave daemon. A
first beta release is planed for next week (6. -
11.11.2006). For more information about current
development see: 
   
   http://dkukawka.blogspot.com/.

-----------------------------------

For current changelog and news see: 
https://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?release_id=465431&group_id=124576

21 Nov 06:
---------------------------------------
* released 0.7.1 unstable:
I'm glad to announce the first new offical release
from the KPowersave development tree. This is the
first version (0.7.1) of KPowersave without a
dependency to the powersave daemon. From now
KPowersave use directly the HAL daemon to get
Hardware information and set e.g. brightness or
trigger suspend. 
 
Also if KPowersave depend no longer on powersave,
I would recommend to use the new/current powersave
version furthermore. You can use the powersave
daemon if there is no client as e.g. KPowersave to
handle system powermanagement. If KPowersave start
up the daemon stop automatically to handle
powermanagement policy and the applet force the
user specific policy. 
 
You can find all changes since the last stable
release in the NEWS file or in the Changelog.  
 
Please test KPowersave and feel free to report
bugs to the powersave-devel mailinglist.

Major changes since the last version:
Initial port from powersave to
HAL/D-Bus/PolicyKit:
- replaced most features from the last stable
version base on powersave with new code. (Only
missing atm eyecandy stuff as suspend progress
dialog)
- replaced code to get hardware info from
powersave with get info from the HAL daemon
- changed resume from suspend/standby detection
and handling of the event
- KPowersave claim now
org.freedesktop.Policy.Power interface from D-Bus
to stop powersave from handle powermanagement
policy and to prevent handle other clients to
start powermanagement.
- Extended existing schemes to be complete handled
in KPowersave instead of the powersave daemon.
Added new (scheme) settings for:
 * battery warning levels
 * actions for battery warning levels and for
lidclose events
 * AC and Battery default schemes
 * CPU Frequency Policies per scheme
   --> NOTE: you can change this settings
currently only via the config file and not via the
GUI configure dialog. This is the next step, we
concentrated on get KPowersave running for this
release.
- Fixed KDE screensaver and DPMS handling to
reduce/avoid interfer with the KDE user settings.
There is a KDE patch available to check if
KPowersave handle DPMS settings already and call
the KPowersave config dialog.

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Feb 06, v0.5.6]
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