Removing the (outdated and unmaintained) Energy KCM

[Andreas Hartmetz]

On Wednesday 14 October 2009 18:00:58 Darío Andrés wrote:
> 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?)
> 
There is never a good reason (I could think of) to keep unused code around for 
a long time when we have version control.