[Pkg-kde-extras] Bug#550875: kpowersave always enables screensaver (similar #424944)

[Michael Biebl]

Hans-J. Ullrich wrote:
> Package: kpowersave
> Severity: important
> 
> 
> 
> -- System Information:
> Debian Release: squeeze/sid
>   APT prefers unstable
>   APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable')
> Architecture: x86_64
> 
> Kernel: Linux 2.6.30-2-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
> Locale: LANG=de_DE at euro, LC_CTYPE=de_DE at euro (charmap=ISO-8859-15)
> Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
> 
> Dear maintainers,
> 
> kpowersave is one of th emost useful applications in kde. But sadly I have
> to report of a bug:
> 
> When kpowersave is activated and switching to suspend-to-ram, two things
> happen
> 
> 1. Suspending at  battery-mode:  At wakeup the screen is locked and the
> screen-saver is started.
> 
> 2. After unlocking the screensaver, the screensaver (with its settings) from KDE are
> activated.
> 
> 
> It would be nice, of you could take a look at that. As I said, IMO kpowersave is
> very, very useful!
> 
> May I ask for a wish? 
> 
> I suggest to implement a new feature:
> 
> In the settings of "battery" (the one, where you can define the percent
> related actions of the battery), I suggest to add an option, to add selfmade
> profiles, too. I, for example, made an own profile called "0-level", where I
> shut down all high processes (cpu down, lights off, screen off and so on),
> but this cannot be choosen in that menu. Maybe you might like to add this
> feature in one of the next versions? Would be nice!
> 
> All in all, thank you very much for this nice application and your work!

Hi Hans-J. Ullrich,

kpowersave is dead (upstream) and I'll ask for it's removal before the squeeze
release.

I suggest you start looking at the power manager that comes with KDE4, i.e.
powerdevil.

Cheers,
Michael

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