power management goodness: kde 4.2 will suck less
... power. As Dario has already blogged, we have a great new application in kdebase, scheduled to be released with KDE 4.2 in january. PowerDevil is actually not an application in the traditional sense. PowerDevil delivers the infrastructure for power management in KDE. This means it'll notify you when your battery is running out, it dims your screen a bit when you're idle to save some battery life, it switches to a lower power consumption state when you unplug the AC Adapter, it automatically suspends, hibernates or shuts down when your battery is (near) empty, that kind of stuff. For a user, it's not a real application, but much more a service that handles some tasks for you and doesn't get in the way.
Technically, powerdevil is designed to integrate with KDE's platform-independant infrastructure. So while the actual tasks are very close to the hardware's capabilities, powerdevil is not bound to Linux for example.
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