KPowersave 0.7.2 released

This weekend I release the new KPowersave version 0.7.2. from the development tree. This release is really a major step to the next stable version/tree 0.8.x. As first: forget the tutorial I wrote for v0.7.1 to manually change the settings of KPowersave - you don't need it anymore. You can now change all settings via the new updated configure dialog.

Here a list of the major changes since the last release:

• extended/updated configure dialog to provide this functionality:
• schemes settings:
• add new and delete existing (no default) schemes
• define a CPU Frequency policy for each scheme
• general settings:
• define battery warning levels and actions if a level reached as e.g. Suspend to disk, Shutdown or change the brightness
• configure actions for button events (Power/Lid/Suspend/Sleep)
• define the default AC and battery schemes
• show now the power consumption of the battery in the detailed info dialog if discharging
• umount external media before suspend (need a patch of the KDE media manager) to avoid data loss and remount on resume
• reset the CPU Freq settings on resume to avoid different CPU governors on multicore /CPU machines
• call now SetCPUFreqConsiderNice(), SetCPUFreqPerformance() on dynamic CPU Freq policy (as poweruser setting only changeable via config file) and also SetPowerSave() with true on battery and false otherwise
• support also conservative governor as DYNAMIC fallback
• fixed brightness handling in the configure dialog if not activated
• removed accelerator tags from i18n() strings. KDE handle this by itself.
• Improved config GUI to be better accessible via keyboard.
• code and code documentation cleanups and updates
  

I also fixed many bugs since the last version for more information read the release news. Due to the changes in the config GUI and the removed accelerator tags the most translations are currently not up-to-date (full translated: de, da, tr, zh_CN and zh_TW). Thanks to the following people for sending updates for their languages: Stefan Skotte (danish), S.Çağlar Onur (turkish) and Zhengpeng Hou (chinese). Any help on update translations would be really appreciated.

You can download the source and rpms as always via kde-apps.org or directly via the sourceforge project page. Currently are only rpms for openSUSE 10.2 available, other distributions will follows in the next days.

Tech Tags: KPowersave