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

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On 01/27/2012 01:40 PM, Tom Gundersen wrote:
> Welcome!

  Thank you!

> 
>>   (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).

  Agreed completely - was just making a comment ...

> 
> That's an annoying bug (both with CLI and with GUI workarounds imho).
> If you know where in the stack the problem is

  I need to work on it to track it down further and confirm it is still
happening with current kernel/plasma et al - in the past it has taken a
couple of sleep/wake cycles to trigger ...

> (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 :-)
> 

   Will do ...


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