Bugzilla – Bug 385312
KPowersave KDE3 version not ready for KDE4
Last modified: 2009-05-25 21:41:45 UTC
KDE4 doesn't use dcop and hence kpowersave can't talk with dcop. Due to that while suspending to ram/disk kpowersave gives "Could not umount external media" warning messages. Therefore I'd say a kpowersave kde4 port would mandatory for 11.0.
Since I'm atm not sure that we will have a full port to KDE for 11.0 GoldMaster atm, I would say it's a bug and I've to extend the KDE3 Kpowersave package to use DBus instead of DCOP if it's started under KDE4. I take a look at it.
*** Bug 387740 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
I guess we can do this with an online update too (doing a full port after beta phase sounds indeed not like a good idea). So let's make sure we get this done and tested before we force it into GM.
*** Bug 393679 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
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*** Bug 396211 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
The problem disappeared after I installed KDE3 (and continued to use KDE4). Presumably KDE3 installs dcop and kpowersave has someone to talk to. Perhaps a workaround is to install kdelibs3?
(In reply to comment #7 from Martin Vidner) > The problem disappeared after I installed KDE3 (and continued to use KDE4). > Presumably KDE3 installs dcop and kpowersave has someone to talk to. Perhaps a > workaround is to install kdelibs3? I have kdelibs3 (dont know why...) installed but my problem still (396211) exists.
*** Bug 402110 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
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kdebas3 must be installed(In reply to comment #8 from Daniele Frijia) > (In reply to comment #7 from Martin Vidner) > > The problem disappeared after I installed KDE3 (and continued to use KDE4). > > Presumably KDE3 installs dcop and kpowersave has someone to talk to. Perhaps a > > workaround is to install kdelibs3? > > > I have kdelibs3 (dont know why...) installed but my problem still (396211) > exists. kdebase3 must be installed to stop this behaviour. Maybe the part of kdebase3 which is neccessary to make suspend work should be packaged separately. Even better would be to have a power management application for KDE4.
*** Bug 424689 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
What about replacing kpowersave with powerdevil under kde-4 ?!?
I can't get any of the power managers to work properly. I have tried kpowersave, powerdevil and lithium. I can manually do a suspend (From the kickoff menu, or power manager menus), but the auto-suspend feature does not work. They will not power down the monitors either. I'm using openSuse 11 (all up-to-date), kde 4.1.1, x86_64 The thing is that kpowersave works great under KDE 3.5.9
Danny what's the news here??
forget kpowersave and use powerdevil
kpowersave has/had many nice features like button events, hotkeys ... I do not think powerdevil is there yet. kpowersave was one of the good suse programs, which made the kde desktop better. But by now it should really be able to handle, opening kde4 shutdown dialog... I am using powerdevil right now too but would like to have all the good kpowersave features back...
Ok it is offical now it seems kpowersave is dead: http://www.kdedevelopers.org/node/3728#comment-8147 therefore this one can probably be closed. Sad.
see comment 20
(In reply to comment #13) > kdebase3 must be installed to stop this behaviour. Maybe the part of kdebase3 > which is neccessary to make suspend work should be packaged separately. Even > better would be to have a power management application for KDE4. Meanwhile, shouldn't a dependency be added to kdebase3? This indeed solved the issue for me.