klaptopdaemon uses obsolete methods.

[Michael Biebl]

Ana Guerrero wrote:

> 
> Ana
> PS: Michael, i have cc'ed you in case you have something interesting to say
> wrt kpowerposave.
> 

Obviously, as kpowersave maintainer, I would welcome the change to 
kpowersave. It were the limitations in klaptopdaemon, which originally 
made me to package kpowersave. I've been a happy user of kpowersave ever 
since.
kpowersave, just as gnome-power-manager, uses HAL/pm-utils as backend, 
which is good. Because if there are problems with suspend/hibernate, we 
only have to fix it once. And I think the HAL/pm-utils architecture is 
much saner than the klaptopdaemon.
kpowersave also offers much more features than klaptopdaemon
(brightnesscontrol, auto shutdown, configurable power events, 
blacklists, power schemes, ...).

The only issue I can think of, is that users using kpowersave have to be 
in group powerdev (same problem applies to gnome-power-manager).

For fresh installations this is not much of a problem, as users created 
during installation are automatically added to the powerdev group.
And it seems to have worked for gnome-power-manager, which was already 
shipped by default on a gnome installation for etch. So I don't expect 
to much problems here. Just something to keep in mind.

Cheers,
Michael
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