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- A frontend to HAL's power features for KDE.
- Supports screen brightness, battery level, plugged/unplugged notices, laptop lid closing actions
- Original specification at https://wiki.kubuntu.org/KubuntuPowerManagement
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- TODO
- - In the KDE 3 version we had to keep polling HAL rather than listening for signals because the Python DBUS bindings
- don't have Qt mainloop integration, this can and should be fixed for KDE 4
- - Should also handle UPS and bluetooth batteries
- - Handle global keyindings, brightness up/down etc
- - It doesn't use solid, Thomas Gillespie is working on a C++ replacement which will
- - pretty graphs of power usage, a la gnome-power-manager? (could just start ksysguard)
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- Dependencies
- - Python
- - HAL
- - python-dbus
- - PyQt4
- - PyKDE4
- - ixf86misc in modules/ needs some X libraries, -lX11 -lXxf86vm -lXext -lXrandr -lXrender -lXss
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