[Kde-announce-apps] KPowersave v0.7.2-unstable

[Danny Kukawka]

Name: KPowersave
Version: v0.7.2-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
powermanagement 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
- define battery warning levels and related
actions if a level reached
- actions for special button events
(power/lid/suspend/sleep buttons)
- define AC/Battery default scheme
- KNotify support for many events
- online help and localisations

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

- KPowersave contains a detailed information
dialog (on left mouse button on the applet icon):
  * CPU Frequency information
  * Battery and power consumption 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)

Additionaly you can use the powersave daemon to
handle powermanagement if no user is logged in to
the system
(http://sourceforge.net/projects/powersave/).

For (additional) 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 10.1/10.2/10.3 see related repositories
(www.opensuse.org), for 9.2/9.3 older version on
sf.net available)
* ALTLinux: default
(http://www.sisyphus.ru/srpm/kpowersave/get)
* 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(FC5) and HAL/DBUS (FC4) update
rpms plus src rpm)
* Fedora Core 6 (see sf.net project homepage)
* Mandriva 2006.1/2007.1 (see sf.net project
homepage or from Cooker 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
Packages 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) by:
 * Danny Kukawka (2004-2007)
 * Thomas Renninger (2004) 

Changelog:
 For more information about current development
see: 
   
   http://dkukawka.blogspot.com/.

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For current changelog and news see: 
https://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?group_id=124576&release_id=487370

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23. Feb 2007
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* released packages for Mandriva 2007.1 and Fedora
Core 6 (booth for ix86/x86_64 and as src rpms)
* updated project description and feature list

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18. Feb 2007
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This version is a major step to the next
KPowersave stable version. As first: you don't
need to change the KPowersave config file manually
any longer - this version provide now all options
for powermanagement in KPowersave via the updated
and extended configure dialog.

You can find all changes since the last release in
this file or in the Changelog. Please test
KPowersave and feel free to report bugs to the
powersave-devel mailinglist.

Because of the changed GUI the most translations
are not up-to-date. Feel free to checkout the
source, update your translations file and send it
to us.

Major changes since the last version:
 - extended configure dialog to provide this
functionality:
   * schemes settings:
     - add new and delete existing (no default)
schemes
     - define a CPU Frequency policy for each
scheme
   * general settings:
     - define battery warning levels and actions
if a level reached
       as e.g. Suspend to disk, Shutdown or change
the brightness
     - configure actions for button events
(Power/Lid/Suspend/Sleep)
     - define the default AC and battery schemes
 - show the power consumtion of the battery in the
detailed info dialog
 - umount external media before suspend (need a
patch of the KDE media
   manager) to avoid data loss and remount on
resume
 - reset the CPU Freq settings on resume to avoid
different settings for
   the CPU governor on multicore machines
 - call now SetCPUFreqConsiderNice(),
SetCPUFreqPerformance() on dynamic
   CPU Freq policy (as poweruser setting only
changeable via config file),
   and also SetPowerSave() with true on battery
and false otherwise.
 - support also conservative governor as DYNAMIC
fallback
 - fixed brightness handling in the configure
dialog if not activated
 - removed accelerator tags from i18n() strings.
KDE handle this by itself.
   Improved config GUI to be better accessible via
keyboard.
 - code and code documentation cleanups and
updates

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