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New: KPowersave 0.7.3
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Note: The last release is now 4 months ago, so the NEWS are longer than
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normal. For all changes read the Changelog.
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Major changes since the last version/release:
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- added new dialog to show logfiles if a suspend/resume fail and allow
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the user to save the log (need to get enabled per distro)
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- added support to handle brightness key events if the machine not already
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handle this in the hardware directly
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- added new feature named autodimm to reduce the brightness of the display
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if the user is inactive and dimm up if the user get active again
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- new dialog shown up 30 seconds before autosuspend call the suspend to
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warn the user and allow chancel the suspend
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- added code to work with new PolicyKit/ConsoleKit/HAL combi to check if
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the user is privileged (for HAL >= 0.5.10 and related PolicyKit versions)
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- added code to check if the current desktop session is avtive and handle
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if the session get inactive (via ConsoleKit)
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- added code to release/aquire org.freedesktop.Policy.Power if the session
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get inactive/active to allow powersaved or other active KPowersave
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instances to handle powermanagement
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- prepared KPowersave to work also with HAL >= 0.5.10 (handle renamed
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policy names in HAL)
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- use now kdebug functions instead of own macros, added --dbg-trace option
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to allow trace function entry and leave points.
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Minor changes:
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- added wodim to autosuspend blacklist
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- changed logic for resume if a timeout happen
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- change default timeout to fake keyevent for locked screen to 2.5 sec
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- don't fake key event after locked screen and lidopen if config variable
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timeToFakeKeyAfterLock < 0
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- added new config variable (callSetPowerSaveOnAC in [General] section)
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to disable call SetPowerSave() on HAL.
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- fix code to guess if a 6-hour-timeout occours while suspend/resume or
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if there was really a error
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- removed Portuguese version of the help, since only one paragraph was
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translated
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- fixed configure script to detect if we should use HAL to get information
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about policies instead of PolicyKit
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- force update detailed dialog on AC events to get always e.g. the
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correct scheme info in the dialog
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- reworked code for mouse wheel events to reuse code for brightness keys
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- several HAL/D-Bus/PolicyKit/ConsoleKit related fixes/updates
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- cleanup code, fixed compiler warnings, added new functions to removed
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doubled code
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Bugfixes:
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- fixed problems with usage of enum cpufreq_type: don't assign integer
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values to a enum (lead to segfault since enum is a 8bit char object)
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- fixed wrong unit for power consumption (removed 'h' from unit)
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- only suspend on button events if we resumed to avoid double suspends
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- several fixes to make Q_SIGNALS from HAL/DBus idependent from the QT
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eventloop due to problems with the QT3 DBus bindings
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- several patches from Mandriva (lmontel@mandriva.com) to fix problems
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with translations, format messages, speedup build and memory leaks
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- fixed detection if brightness is really supported by the system
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- call setPowerSave() always depending on AC state if a scheme get set.
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- use float for internal calculation of battery values
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- When use DBUS_TYPE_BOOLEAN use as variable type dbus_bool_t to avoid
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possible trouble on big endian machines
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Fixed bugs (from bugzilla.novell.com if no other comment):
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- #182609: autosuspend warn dialog, feature request
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- #229234: kpowersave does not fall back to userspace governor
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- #256372: make HAL events independent from QT eventloop
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- #257326: ignore battery warnings if on AC
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- #266243: check info.capability and not info.category for laptop_panel
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- #274705: feature request autodimm
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- #282640: fixed brightness up/down handling
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- #284622: fixed segfault
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- #293707: de.po: missing space between text and ellipsis (...)
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- #298332: crash, fixed typo
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- #299577: disable Yast module on >= openSUSE 10.3
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- #301692: fix switch schemes on AC events, fixed detection session
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state, fixed possible segfault on ix86
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- #302493: don't use kdFatal() befor exit(), it would look like a crash
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- #303963: fix segfault if XDG_SESSION_COOKIE is not set
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- #307431: prevent AC notifications if session state get changed
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- #309491: fixed code to free TDEProcess object if gnome-screensaver runs
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- Debian #413638: if config dialog is minimized and the user try to
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start config dialog via applet reactivate the dialog.
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- Debian #413811: fails to notify if suspend-to-ram fails
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- (K)Ubuntu #94396: stop autosuspend before suspend
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Tranlation updates:
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- german: Danny Kukawka
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- arabic: Youssef Chahibi
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- slovenian: Jure Repinc
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- several other from forgesvn1.novell.com/svn/suse-i18n/trunk/lcn
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New: KPowersave 0.7.2 (development tree/unstable)
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=================================================
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This version is a major step to the next KPowersave stable version.
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At first: you don't need to change the KPowersave config file manually
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any longer - this version provide now all options for powermanagement
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in KPowersave via the updated and extended configure dialog.
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You can find all changes since the last release in this file or in the
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Changelog. Please test KPowersave and feel free to report bugs to the
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powersave-devel mailinglist or for SUSE products via the Novell bugzilla.
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Because of the changes in the GUI the most translations are not
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up-to-date. Feel free to checkout the source, update your translations
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file and send it to us.
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Major changes since the last version:
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- extended configure dialog to provide this functionality:
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* schemes settings:
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- add new and delete existing (no default) schemes
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- define a CPU Frequency policy for each scheme
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* general settings:
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- define battery warning levels and actions if a level reached
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as e.g. Suspend to disk, Shutdown or change the brightness
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- configure actions for button events (Power/Lid/Suspend/Sleep)
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- define the default AC and battery schemes
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- show the power consumtion of the battery in the detailed info dialog
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- umount external media before suspend (need a patch of the KDE media
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manager) to avoid data loss and remount on resume
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- reset the CPU Freq settings on resume to avoid different settings for
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the CPU governor on multicore machines
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- call now SetCPUFreqConsiderNice(), SetCPUFreqPerformance() on dynamic
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CPU Freq policy (as poweruser setting only changeable via config file),
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and also SetPowerSave() with true on battery and false otherwise.
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- support also conservative governor as DYNAMIC fallback
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- fixed brightness handling in the configure dialog if not activated
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- removed accelerator tags from i18n() strings. KDE handle this by itself.
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Improved config GUI to be better accessible via keyboard.
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- code and code documentation cleanups and updates
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Fixed bugs (from bugzilla.novell.com if no other comment):
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- #245081: KPowersave does not set (ondemand) governor on startup
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- #244052: Close lid of a laptop and suspend to ram cause 100% CPU
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- #229960: CPUFREQ_DYNAMIC_PERFORMANCE seems to be ignored during
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boot and scheme change
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- #230686: KPowersave need to be restarted to apply DPMS settings
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- #230965: puzzling battery state info
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- #231709: kpowersave-0.7.1-12: comparison with string literal
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- #231184: KPowersave crashes due to uninitalized LibHalContext
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- #229234: KPowersave does not fall back to userspace governor
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- #215262: Suspend to disk with attached usb storage not working
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- #223164: After suspend, second core has performance governor set
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- #223517: Powersave: CPU scheme "dynamic" reduces speed if only
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nice -19 processes run
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- #223637: kpowersave crashes in first login
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- #225212: KPowersave crash on ThinkPad X60s
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- #221715: Functionality for configuring lid close event etc.
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missing in KPowersave
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- #223922: System not shuting down on pressing power button
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Tranlation updates:
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- german: Danny Kukawka
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- danish: Stefan Skotte
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- turkish: S.Çağlar Onur
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- chinese: Zhengpeng Hou
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KPowersave 0.7.1 (development tree/unstable)
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=================================================
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I'm glad to announce the first new offical release from the KPowersave
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development version 0.7.1. This is the first version of KPowersave without
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dependency to the powersave daemon. From now KPowersave use directly the
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HAL daemon to get Hardware information and set e.g. brightness or trigger
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Suspend.
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Also if KPowersave depend no longer on powersave, I would recommend to use
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the new/current powersave version furthermore. You can use the powersave
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daemon if there is no client as e.g. KPowersave to handle system power-
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management. If KPowersave (there is also a patch for g-p-m available) start
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up the daemon stop automatically to handle powermanagement policy and
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the KPowersave applet force (if allowed) the user specific policy.
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You can find all changes since the last stable release in this file or in
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the Changelog. Please test KPowersave and feel free to report bugs to
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the powersave-devel mailinglist or for SUSE products via the Novell bugzilla.
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Major changes since the last version:
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- Initial port from powersave to HAL/D-Bus/PolicyKit:
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- replaced most features from the last stable version base on powersave
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with new code. (Only missing atm eyecandy stuff as suspend progress dialog)
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- replaced code to get hardware information from powersave with get info
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from the HAL daemon
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- changed resume from suspend/standby detection and handling of the event
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- KPowersave claim now org.freedesktop.Policy.Power interface from D-Bus
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to stop powersave from handle powermanagement policy and to prevent
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handle other clients to start powermanagement.
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- Extended existing schemes to be complete handled in KPowersave instead
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of the powersave daemon. Added new (scheme) settings for:
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* battery warning levels
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* actions for battery warning levels and for lidclose events (as e.g.
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SHUTDOWN, SUSPEND2DISK, SUSPEND2RAM, CPUFREQ_POWERSAVE, CPUFREQ_DYNAMIC,
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or BRIGHTNESS)
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* AC and Battery default schemes
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* CPU Frequency Policies per scheme
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--> NOTE: you can change this settings currently only via the config file
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and not via the GUI configure dialog. This is the next step, we
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concentrated on get KPowersave running for this release.
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- Fixed KDE screensaver and DPMS handling to reduce/avoid interfer with the
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KDE user settings. There is a KDE patch available to check if KPowersave
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handle DPMS settings already and call the KPowersave config dialog.
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KPowersave 0.6.2 (stable update)
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Changes/fixes since last stable release:
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- KPowersave depends now on powersave >= 0.12.18
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- fixed bugs:
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- sf.net #1483392/ SUSE #177792: set changes for autosuspend state via DCOP
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back to the applet menu, added DCOP functions to set the current scheme,
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the current CPUFreq policy and to open/close the detailed dialog
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- sf.net #1483392/ SUSE #177788,180000: added workaround to fix two bugs in
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the DPMS- and Screensaver extension of X, related to autosuspend and detect
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user inactivity (DPMS timeouts are abstracted from current idle time, but
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shouldn't / DPMS timeouts are currently additive but shouldn*'t). This fix
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problems with autosuspend if the timeout is longer than the DPMS timeouts.
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- SUSE #168619: changed errorhandling if HAL, DBUS or the powersave daemon
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is not running or if the user has not the needed rights to access the
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powersave daemon via DBUS. Added new errormessages and translations.
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- SUSE #182515: Changed configure dialog to respect rules for DPMS timeouts
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- SUSE #176782: patch from Timo Hönig <thoenig@suse.de> to allow (if
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supported and enabled in the scheme) change brighness via mousewheel over
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the applet icon.
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- SUSE (SLED) #183745: fixed detection of SUSE Linux/SLES/SLED and added
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configure option to force SLES/SLED as distro with --enable-suse-sles.
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Fixed bugzilla link for SLED/SLES
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- SUSE #184076: fixed wrong command to start dbus daemon in errormessage.
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- added additional check before autosuspend if this was disabled via applet
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- added new configure check to detect Ubuntu/Kubuntu
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- changed link to Ubuntu bugzilla to launchpad.net and use now the same link
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for applet menu entry "Report a bug ..." if compiled for Ubuntu/Kubuntu
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- updated default blacklist for autosuspend with gmplayer,kaffeine,xine,mencoder
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- updated translation: cs,de,es,fi,fr,hu,it,km,pl,pt_BR,zh_CN,zh_TW
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- updated (cs) and fixed translation of eventsrc for KNotify
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- fixed and updated code documentation
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KPowersave 0.6.1 (stable update)
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Changes/fixes since last stable release:
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- fixed SUSE bug #167296: fixed tooltip and removed unneeded checks for battery
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related infos. Should fix display wrong remaining time on charging with APM
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- fixed SUSE bug #165462: removed utf8 tag from eventsrc which results in
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"unknown source ..." message in knotify dialog
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- fixed SUSE bug #168838; event for resumeFromSuspendToDisk displayed twice in
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knotify dialog (typo and translation issue in eventsrc)
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- fixed detailed dialog for multiprocessor/-core machines without CPUFreq or
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throttling support and offline CPUs/Cores
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- updated translations (fi,km,pl,ru) including desktop files and eventsrc (ru,
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from Anton Farygin <rider@altlinux.com>)
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- added configure check for dbus-1-qt3-devel headers
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- updated README (ALT Linux bugzilla link)
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KPowersave 0.6.0 (stable)
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I'm glad to announce the new official stable release of KPowersave (v0.6.0).
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You can find all changes since the last stable release in this file or in
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the Changelog.
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Thanks to all persons which helped to develop KPowersave with patches,
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testing new unstable versions and report bugs back to us. A special thanks
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to:
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Holger Macht, Stefan Seyfried, Michael Biebl, Daniel Gollub
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and last but not least SUSE/Novell.
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Danny Kukawka
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Changes since last release:
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- changed powersave dependency to current stable version >= 0.12.7
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- reduced the size of the package by optimize the size of included png files.
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The size off all png files is now reduced by ~709KByte.
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- added german version of the handbook
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- fixed processor bar in detailed dialog to set correct for the first call.
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- fixed tooltip for machines which always report charging also if 100%
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charged and on AC
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- fix from Michael Biebl for notify about autosuspend after resume and a
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remove no longer needed check from configure
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- added support for lock screen via gnome-screensaver (only under GNOME)
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- added fake keyevent (shift) after resume if machine was locked before
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suspend to show the login dialog automatically
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- fixed detailed dialog for machines without CPUFreq and more than one CPU/
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Core or with throttling support (see SUSE bug #164683).
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- added patch from Daniel Gollub to be able to fake CPU infos for develop
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- fixed errorhandling for YaST power management module (SUSE specific)
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- changed link for report bug opened via the applet menu if this is a
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SUSE package. Open now the related opensuse.org wiki page.
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- fixed bug report address in the about dialog (to powersave-users ML)
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- translation updates
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- changed timeout for recheck powersave on startup from 10 secs to 20 to
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avoid annoying messages on slow machines or autologin
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- updated README with install/compile and help/bugreport information
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- updated code docu (added planed features/enhancements for 0.7/0.8 tree)
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- updated spec files for packaging
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KPowersave 0.5.11 (rc5)
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Changes since last release:
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- added function to check if the machine is a laptop and to allow hide
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laptop specific widgets/code e.g. on workstations
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- hide 'Lock screen on lid close' checkbox in config dialog on non-Laptop
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- changed brightness settings to be sure that we use the lowest 'usable'
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min level of brightness and to avoid off the display on e.g. pmu
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- allow root user always all kind of suspend/standby
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- little fix to prepare for QT4 (s/TRUE/true/)
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- translation, handbook and code documenatation updates and fixes
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- code cleanups, SVN file attributes fixed
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KPowersave 0.5.10 (rc4)
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Changes since last release:
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- KPowersave depends now on: powersave >= 0.12.2
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- fixed lidclose handling: added call xset to off the backlight of LCD
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displays and reset DPMS settings on lidopen
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- fixed read throttling state for multiprocessor machines (patch from
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Daniel Gollub <dgollub@suse.de>)
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- fixed display processor infos on multiprocessor/-core machines dislay now
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values for each CPU/core also on non CPUfreq and non-throttling machines
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- fix to display battery infos only if at least min. 1 batteryslot available
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- translation updates (po files and handbook) from SUSE/Novell translation
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team and Dawid Wróbel <cromo@klej.net>
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- added and updated screenshots for handbook
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- added missing icon on non-SUSE distributions
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- autotools releated fixes: better detection of Mandriva, use now pkgconfig
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from powersave for checks and linking, read name/location of dbus system
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socket from pkgconfig.
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KPowersave 0.5.9 (rc3)
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Changes since last release:
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- fixed battery and processor information for APM and machines without
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CPU freq or throttling support
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- fixed battery state in the detailed dialog if no battery is available
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- translation and handbook updates and fixes
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KPowersave 0.5.8 (rc2)
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Changes since last release:
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- removed sound settings from configure dialog and added KNotify support
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and more events, KNotify config dialog is available via applet menu and
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in the configure dialog (Michael Biebl/Danny Kukawka)
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- added dcop function to open configure dialog
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- fixed path to powersaved in code and translations to be more portable
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(Michael Biebl)
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- fixed cpu info in the info dialog to display also for machines which
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only support throttling (Daniel Gollub/Danny Kukawka)
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- fixed battery part in the info dialog to have same sized progressbars
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- fixed strings in the code, fixed sting in tooltip if charging
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- fixed problems with pidof on Fedora: pidof should be in PATH of user.
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- removed no longer needed parts from handbook
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- updated translations related to the changes
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- cleanups (code and files)
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KPowersave 0.5.7 (rc1)
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Changes since last release:
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- added brightness support and battery state info to the detailed dialog
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- updated translations: bg,cs,es,fr,it,ja,pt,nb,pt_BR,zh_CN,zh_TW
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- added new language: km
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- added new help file (currently without pics): Finnish
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- fixed bugs:
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- fixed again display CPU Freq Policy on machines without cpufreq support
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- autotools related fixes (Michael Biebl <biebl@teco.edu>)
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KPowersave 0.5.6 (unstable)
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Changes since last release:
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- added new summary battery progress bar if more than one battery bay is
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available in the system
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- updated translation files (nb,nl,pl,pt,zh_CN) thanks to Dawei Pang
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(zh_CN) and Dawid Wróbel (pl)
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- added new helpfiles for Czech and Portuguese (not complete translated),
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removed some pics to reduce package size
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- fixed bugs:
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- wrong path to pidof prevented autosuspend (fixed path to /bin )
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- fixed autotools releated issues
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- included header for Slackware 10.2
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- fixed excessive CPU usage of detailed dialog
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- fixed problems if CPU Freq Policy not supported
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KPowersave 0.5.5 (unstable)
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Changes since last release:
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- reworked the detailed dialog to a new design
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- fixed problems with offline CPUs
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- fixed battery handling
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- updated pot/po files and completed german translation
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- added new help menu to the applet, added new about dialog and a link
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to the sourceforge bugzilla for easy report bugs
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- added new icon for the 'Advanced Powersave' scheme
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- several cleanups and little fixes
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KPowersave 0.5.4 (unstable)
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Changes since last release:
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- added new detailed information dialog to the left button on the applet
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which provide currently following information:
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- battery info for multiple batteries
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- CPU Frequency info also for multiprozessor machines
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- current scheme, current CPU Frequency policy, AC status, powersave
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status
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- updated code dokumentation and enhancement/implementation doc
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KPowersave 0.5.3 (unstable)
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Changes since last release:
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- implemented scheme specific brightness settings in KPowersave
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and in the configure dialog and added capability for brightness to disable
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set brightness in powersave if KPowersave is running.
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- added warning dialog is 'Advanced Powersave' scheme is selected to avoid
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problems with this EXPERIMENTAL feature
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- updated: translation (nl), code documentation
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- fixed compiler warning, patch by Daniel Gollub <dgollub@suse.de>
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KPowersave 0.5.2 (unstable)
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Changes since last release (KPowersave 0.5.0):
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- updated to new powersave (>= v0.11.2)
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- added new dialog/error message if powersave is not running, from now
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'Don't show again' checkbox is available to disable the message
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- added popup if HAL is not running (special if also powersave is not available)
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and kpowersave get no information about battery/AC status
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- changed settings of sounds filedialog to be more portable
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- removed old and not needed qt1/qt2 includes
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- changed handling with not available connection to powersave on
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startup of KDE (special for autologin)
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- updated help files and added new Norsk and Hungarian help files, added
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language specific screenshots
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- fixed dialogs to be respect KDE user interface style guide, fixed
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icon handling and desktop file (thanks to Stephan Binner <stbinner@suse.de>)
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- added admin dir and updated README for compile on non-SUSE distributions
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- updated translation files
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- updated code documentation
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- code and file cleanups
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- several little bugfixes
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- switched from CVS to SVN
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