Hi all,
I know many of you already noticed that we released the new stable tree of
KPowersave, but I would like to send now the offical announcement to the
lists.
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I'm glad to announce the new official stable release of KPowersave (v0.6.0).
You can find all changes since the last stable release in the release notes
or in the Changelog.
Thanks to all persons which helped to develop KPowersave with patches,
testing new unstable versions and report bugs back to us. A special thanks
to:
Holger Macht, Stefan Seyfried, Michael Biebl, Daniel Gollub
and last but not least SUSE/Novell.
You can download the packages for SUSE 10.0 (ix86 and x86_64), Fedora Core 4,
Mandriva 2006.1 and the source from the powersave project page on sf.net
(see: http://sourceforge.net/projects/powersave/)
Packages for other distributions are available from:
- SUSE 10.1: included by default or from factory repository
- Ubuntu: from universe repository (Dapper Drake) or for 'Breezy Badger' from
http://www.teco.edu/~biebl/ubuntu (Thanks to Michael Biebl)
- Kubuntu: from universe repository (Dapper Drake)
- Debian (unstable/testing): available via 'apt-get install kpowersave'
- Gentoo (ebuilds: http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=122278)
- Arch Linux PKGBUILD (kpowersave:
http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?do_Details=1&ID=4102, powersave see
unstable tree: http://archlinux.org/packages.php?id=9701)
KPowersave has currently this dependencies:
- powersave/powersave-libs >= 0.12.7
- HAL >= 0.5.4
- dbus/dbus-qt3
- xset and pidof
Please report bugs to powersave-users@forge.novell.com or as SUSE user for
SUSE 10.1 also via http://en.opensuse.org/Report_a_Bug
We start now the 0.7/0.8 tree for development. I the 0.6-stable-tree only
bugfixes and mandatory changes went in.
Danny Kukawka
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Main changes in this release (since v0.5.11-rc5):
- changed powersave dependency to current stable version >= 0.12.7
- reduced the size of the package by optimize the size of included png files.
The size off all png files is now reduced by ~709KByte.
- added german version of the handbook
- fixed processor bar in detailed dialog to set correct for the first call.
- fixed tooltip for machines which always report charging also if 100%
charged and on AC
- fix from Michael Biebl for notify about autosuspend after resume and a
remove no longer needed check from configure
- added support for lock screen via gnome-screensaver (only under GNOME)
- added fake keyevent (shift) after resume if machine was locked before
suspend to show the login dialog automatically
- fixed detailed dialog for machines without CPUFreq and more than one CPU/
Core or with throttling support (see SUSE bug #164683).
- added patch from Daniel Gollub to be able to fake CPU infos for develop
- fixed errorhandling for YaST power management module (SUSE specific)
- changed link for report bug opened via the applet menu if this is a
SUSE package. Open now the related opensuse.org wiki page.
- fixed bug report address in the about dialog (to powersave-users ML)
- translation updates
- changed timeout for recheck powersave on startup from 10 secs to 20 to
avoid annoying messages on slow machines or autologin
- updated README with install/compile and help/bugreport information
- updated code docu (added planed features/enhancements for 0.7/0.8 tree)
- updated spec files for packaging
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