[kde-announce] KPowersave 0.5.2

Name: KPowersave
Version: 0.5.2
Type: System Tool
Depend: KDE 3.4.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 the powersave
daemon. It provides battery monitoring, suspend/
standby triggers and many more features for KDE
(and GNOME).

Current feature list:
- support ACPI and APM
- trigger suspend to disk/ram and standby
- switch cpu frequency policy (between:
performance, dynamic and powersave)
- applet icon with information about AC state,
battery fill and battery (warning) states
- applet tooltip with information about battery
fill and remaining battery time/percentage
- autosuspend (to suspend the machine if the user
is a defined time inactive)
- a global configurable blacklist with programmes
which prevent autosuspend (e.g. videoplayer and cd
burning tools)
- trigger lock screen and select the lock methode
- sound for: battery states, AC adapter events and
autosuspend
- online help: en, hu, nb
- localisations: bg, cs, da, de, el, es, fr, hu,
it, ja, nb, nl, pa, pl, pt_BR, pt, ru, sk, sl_SI,
sv, tr, uk, zh_CN, zh_TW

- KPowersave support schemes with following
configurable specific settings for:
  * screensaver
  * DPMS
  * autosuspend
  * scheme specific blacklist for autosuspend
  * sound settings

To run KPowersave you need currently powersave >=
0.11.2
(http://sourceforge.net/projects/powersave/) and
dbus >= 0.35.2
(http://www.freedesktop.org/Software/dbus) and HAL
>=0.5.4 (http://www.freedesktop.org/Software/hal).

The available RPMs are currently only for
SUSE/openSUSE 10.0 (older versions also for SUSE
9.2/9.3). 

KPowersave and powersave are also running on other
distributions. KPowersave is already available
for:
* ALTLinux:
http://altlinux.org/index.php?module=sisyphus&package....
* K/Ubuntu: e.g. http://www.teco.edu/~biebl/ubuntu
(Thanks to  
Michael Biebl )
* Debian: e.g. http://www.teco.edu/~biebl/debian
(Thanks to  
Michael Biebl )

RPMs 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

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Copyright (C) 2004-2005 by:
 * Danny Kukawka 
 * Thomas Renninger 

Changelog:
 For current changelog and news see:
http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?release_id=3...

11 Jan 06: added new version 0.5.2. KPowersave
need now powersave >= 0.11.2 
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19 Sep 05: added KDE admin directory to the source
tar.bz2. 
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