power manager in 4.2

[Guillaume Pothier]

Hi,
In my opinion, power management should be an integral part of the
desktop and not depend on having started or not a particular
application. The settings for power management should be part of the
system settings. Thus from an infrastructure point of view, I think
PowerDevil is the way to go: it combines a KDED module, a kcmodule and
a plasmoid. I've not tried it myself, though, as it doesn't compile
"out of the box" using kdesvn-build. So I don't know about the UI.
Note that there is also another power manager under development:
lithium (http://rbitanga.blogspot.com/2008/08/powered-by-lithium.html).
I think it would be great to channel all those efforts (guidance,
kde4powersave, lithium) into PowerDevil.
g


On Mon, Aug 18, 2008 at 11:14 AM, Jonathan Riddell <jriddell at ubuntu.com> wrote:
>
> What power management applet to include in 4.2?
>
> guidance-power-manager is working well, but still has polling, doesn't
> use solid and lacks a plasmoid.
>
> kde4powersave seems to work too.  I'm not convinced the UI is as
> simple but it seems to be working well and uses solid, plasma and is
> c++.
>
> There's also powerdevil which I couldn't get to load in Plasma.
>
> Jonathan
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