Removing the (outdated and unmaintained) Energy KCM

[Darío Andrés]

2009/10/14 Dario Freddi <drf54321 at gmail.com>:
> On Wednesday 14 October 2009 17:01:01 you wrote:
>> Nice to hear that PowerDevil works on Desktop PCs and that the
>> code/utils depending on the energy kcm config can be migrated to use
>> PowerDevil.
>> So, the question is, what is the next step ? Besides removing the
>> "energy" folder from kdebase/workspace/kcontrol; should we implement
>> some other kind of configuration migration?
>
> Nope; if PowerDevil is activated, it's already taking care of DPMS handling
>
>> should we modify some
>> other workspace default option to set PowerDevil as the main power
>> manager ?
>
> Nope.
>
> The only dislike that might arise are the fact that if the an user wants to
> kill PowerDevil, he will have no DPMS handling, but I think it makes sense.
>
> Btw, Lithium is an alternative Power Manager (don't know if it's still
> maintained), so it would probably not need that code no longer and roll its
> own configuration for DPMS handling
>

If no one objects this I will disable the compilation of the energy
kcm (in CMakeLists.txt) this weekend
We should discuss later if the code should be deleted too
(kthememanager is disabled (since a long time ago) but the code is
still there.. why?)

Regards

>>
>> Regards
>>
>> >> Regards
>> >> Darío A. (bugs.kde.org)
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