GNOME Power Manager 0.0.2

Paul Ionescu i_p_a_u_l at yahoo.com
Tue Mar 22 12:46:11 PST 2005


Hi,

On Tue, 22 Mar 2005 07:44:04 +0000, Richard Hughes wrote:

> GNOME Power Manager is a GNOME session daemon that acts as a policy agent
> on top of the Project Utopia stack, which includes the kernel, hotplug,
> udev, and HAL. Currently it supports UPS's, laptop batteries and AC
> adaptors. Its goal is to be architecture neutral and free of polling and
> other hacks.
> 
> GNOME Power Manager now has a home:
> http://gnome-power.sourceforge.net
> 
> I've pushed files to the CVS (which should be available soon, details on
> website) and I have a release 0.0.2 available on sourceforge, which
> currently:
> 
> * Displays battery status of laptop batteries, UPS's and (soon to be)
> wireless mice and keyboards.
> * Displays presence of AC Adapter
> * Has preliminary EVENT ACTION's coded in, soon this will move to a D-BUS
> interface for other applications to use. * Is architecture neutral. i.e.
> works in APM, ACPI, and PMU.
> 
> N.B. APM and PMU do not auto-update yet due to the refresh code not yet
> being present in HAL, this is being discussed and rectified.
> 
> N.B. Unless you use ACPI, or if you want to use your UPS, you'll have to
> use HAL from CVS.
> 
> Please could you have a look at send me any comments or ideas.
> 

Cool, things are getting started.
Is this going to be shipped in FC4 ?


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