KPowersave v0.7.3-unstable

[Danny Kukawka]

Name: KPowersave
Version: v0.7.3-unstable
Type: KDE 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/tooltip with info about AC state,
and battery fill/(warning) states, remainig time
- scheme specific settings (see below)
- autosuspend (to suspend if a user was a defined
time inactive)
- autodimm
- a global and scheme specific configurable
blacklist with programmes to prevent
autosuspend/autodimm (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/autodimm
  * scheme specific blacklist for
autosuspend/autodimm
  * CPU Frequency Policy

- KPowersave contains a detailed dialog (on left
mouse button on the applet icon) with all PM
relavant info

To run KPowersave you need currently:
- dbus/dbus-qt3
(http://www.freedesktop.org/Software/dbus) 
- HAL >= 0.5.9
(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 see older version
on sf.net available)
* ALTLinux: default 
* K/Ubuntu: from universe repository 
* Debian: available via 'apt-get install
kpowersave' 
* Fedora Core 6/7/8 (sf.net)
* Mandriva 2007/2008(sf.net)
* Gentoo (ebuilds see download link)
* Arch Linux
* Slackware
(http://www.mytux.org/content/viewslackpackage.php)
* (Simply)Mephis (since 6.0 default)
* 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?release_id=542867&group_id=124576

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29. Oct. 2007
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KPowersave 0.7.3:

Major changes since the last version/release:
- added new dialog to show logfiles if
a suspend/resume fail and allow the user to save
the log (need to get enabled per distro)
- added support to handle brightness key events if
the machine not already handle this in the
hardware directly
- added new feature named autodimm to reduce the
brightness of the display if the user is inactive
and dimm up if the user get active again 
- new dialog shown up 30 seconds before
autosuspend call the suspend to warn the user and
allow chancel the suspend
- added code to work with new
PolicyKit/ConsoleKit/HAL combi to check if the
user is privileged (for HAL >= 0.5.10 and related
PolicyKit versions)
- added code to check if the current desktop
session is avtive and handle if the session get
inactive (via ConsoleKit)
- added code to release/aquire
org.freedesktop.Policy.Power if the session get
inactive/active to allow powersaved or other
active KPowersave instances to handle
powermanagement
- prepared KPowersave to work also with HAL >=
0.5.10 (handle renamed policy names in HAL)
 - use now kdebug functions instead of own macros,
added --dbg-trace option to allow trace function
entry and leave points.

Minor changes:
- added wodim to autosuspend blacklist
- changed logic for resume if a timeout happen
- change default timeout to fake keyevent for
locked screen to 2.5 sec
- don't fake key event after locked screen and
lidopen if config variable timeToFakeKeyAfterLock
= 0
- added new config variable (callSetPowerSaveOnAC
in [General] section) to disable call
SetPowerSave() on HAL.
- fix code to guess if a 6-hour-timeout occours
while suspend/resume or if there was really a
error
- removed Portuguese version of the help, since
only one paragraph was translated
- fixed configure script to detect if we should
use HAL to get information about policies instead
of PolicyKit
- force update detailed dialog on AC events to get
always e.g. the correct scheme info in the dialog
- reworked code for mouse wheel events to reuse
code for brightness keys
- several HAL/D-Bus/PolicyKit/ConsoleKit related
fixes/updates
- cleanup code, fixed compiler warnings, added new
functions to removed doubled code

This release contains many bugfixes and
translation updates. For more follow the
Changelog.

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[18. Feb 2007, 0.7.2][21 Nov 06, 0.7.1][02 July
06, 0.6.2]
[14 May 06, 0.6.1][11 Apr 06, 0.6.0]