[arch-general] [arch-dev-public] KDE 4.8.0 hits [testing]

[Tom Gundersen]

Hi Gene,

On Fri, Jan 27, 2012 at 5:32 PM, Genes MailLists <lists at sapience.com> wrote:
>  First off, New arch user here (was with redhat/fedora since about RH3
> or so) - decided to move in this direction ... so far am liking it a lot.

Welcome!

>   (2) One smallish potential problem zone on laptop is the new power
> applet - profiles are gone and it is no longer possible to choose a
> 'powersave' vs 'performance' via a toggle.

This seems to be working as intended
(http://www.kde.org/announcements/4.8/plasma.php), so nothing that we
should do anything about (if you think it should change it should be
taken up with upstream).

>   If the bug[1] continues where the power applet thinks it is in
> battery mode after unplugging A/C, but in fact it is not (screen remains
> bright etc) [2] then the old way of 'fixing' it of hand toggling to
> performance profile and back to powersave is no longer available (at
> least via the power applet).
>
>   So now need a CLI script to avoid battery drain in that case. Seems a
> step back.

That's an annoying bug (both with CLI and with GUI workarounds imho).
If you know where in the stack the problem is
(plasma/solid/upower/kernel), please file bug upstream. If not, file a
bug at bugs.archlinux.org and we'll try to figure it out :)

>  There is a toggle to 'turn off power management - useful for
> presentations on battery I suppose ... tho when I tried it earlier on
> battery it did not seem to restore performance mode for me ... I need to
> investigate that further tho'.

If it persists, please file bug :-)

Cheers,

Tom