Kima - kicker monitoring applet 0.7.4

[Ken Werner]

Name: Kima - kicker monitoring applet
Version: 0.7.4
Type: KDE Improvement
Depend: KDE 3.x
License: GPL
More Info:
http://www.kde-apps.org/content/show.php?content=33257

Description:
 This applet monitors various temperature,
frequency and fan sources in your kicker panel.
Make sure you have enabled a supported kernel
module.

[b]Homepage:[/b]
[url]http://kima.sourceforge.net[/url]

[b]Features:[/b]
supported thermal sources:
 - the Linux ACPI Thermal Zone driver. The
corresponding kernel module is called thermal.
 - the thermal sources of the Linux ACPI driver
for the IBM ThinkPad laptops. The corresponding
kernel module is called ibm-acpi.
 - the IBM Hard Drive Active Protection System
(HDAPS) driver. The corresponding kernel module is
called hdaps.
 - the Omnibook Configuration Tools & Patches. The
corresponding kernel module is called omnibook.
 - the iBook G4 CPU and GPU thermal zones. It may
work on other Apple machines as well (please let
me know).
 - the thermal sensors available through hwmon
(I2C, lm_sensors, ...).
 - the CPU thermal sensor of the i8k kernel driver
for Dell Inspiron and Latitude notebooks.
 - the GPU thermal sensors of nvidia-settings
(provided by the nVidia GPU card driver tools)
 - the termal sensors provided by hddtemp daemon
(make sure hddtemp runs on 127.0.0.1 port 7634
before kima starts)

supported frequency sources:
 - the Linux kernel /proc/cpuinfo interface
 - the Linux kernel cpufreq subsystem

supported fan sources:
 - the fan sensors available through hwmon (I2C,
lm_sensors, ...).
 - the fan sources of the Linux ACPI driver for
the IBM ThinkPad laptops. The corresponding kernel
module is called ibm-acpi.
 - the fan sources of the i8k kernel driver for
Dell Inspiron and Latitude notebooks.

misc sources:
 - uptime source that displays the current system
uptime
 - battery source that displays the current state
of charge of your batteries

misc:
 - cpufreqd control module to switch cpufreqd
profiles via cpufreqd remote interface

[b]installation:[/b]
grab a appropriate package for your distribution
or the sources below.

using the source:
run configure
	./configure --prefix=$(kde-config --prefix)

build the sources
	make

install the applet (with appropriate rights)
	su -c 'make install'

finally add the applet to your KDE panel (RMB on
kicker).

Changelog:
 [b]Kima 0.7.4:[/b]
 - CPU usage source added
 - russian translation added

[b]Kima 0.7.3.2:[/b]
 - thread wakeups minimized which should lead to a
better powertop result
 - crash fix: prevent i18n calls from within
threads (it seems i18n isn't thread safe)

[b]Kima 0.7.3.1:[/b]
 - the 0.7.3 tag was inconsistent to the released
tar.gz so we decided to release 0.7.3.1
 - improvements regarding the dbus error handling
 - XNVCtrl support fixed
 - small autoconf/automake script improvements

[b]Kima 0.7.3:[/b]
 - more robust battery source in case of
libhal/dbus errors
 - since Kima 0.7.2 was already tagged we jump to
0.7.3 the changeog lists the never released 0.7.2
though
 
[b]Kima 0.7.2:[/b]
 - battery source added that displays the current
state of charge of your batteries through libhal
 - nvidia thermal source: optional configure
switch added to query libXNVCtrl.a instead of
nvidia-settings
 - updated admin directory that supports automake
1.10
 - swedish, turkish and indonesian translation
added (thanks to Oskar Ellström, Uğur Çetin and
Donnie S Bhayangkara)
 - translation fixes
 - processes started by kicker does not exit
correctly because of kimas' use of QProcess.
KProcess fixes the problem

[b]Kima 0.7.1:[/b]
 - uptime source added
 - initial source scanning parallelized
 - spanish translation added
 - hungary translation added
 - german translation fixes
 - hddtemp source bugfix, in case reading from
network failed
 - preferences bugfix, an enabled source was not
displayed on kicker
 - cursor fixed if one drags a source and clicks
right mouse button
 - encoding of the degree sign is now UTF8

[b]Kima 0.7:[/b]
 - support for moving the sources via drag and
drop added
 - support for hddtemp daemon added
(http://www.guzu.net/linux/hddtemp.php)
 - german translation added
 - repainting of the sources improved

visit
[url]http://www.elliptique.net/~ken/kima/#changelog[/url]
to view the full changelog