2009.0 kde4.2.4 update: battery applet not showing

[Luca Olivetti-2]

Today a kde4.2 update showed up in my wife's acer aspire one.
kde4powersave didn't work with the aao, so I used guidance-power-manager
instead.
Kde4.2 uses powerdevil instead of kde4powersave, so I tried to uninstall
guidance-power-manager and install plasma-krunner-powerdevil.
Powerdevil seems to work as configured in the kde control panel, but I
cannot add a battery applet, since it doesn't appear in the list of
applets to add (there are other applet installed that don't appear there).
I'm kinda puzzled since I have another laptop where the battery applet
is there, however that was already using kde from the kde repositories
(also updated today to the "official" 4.2.4) and I never used
guidance-power-manager there.

Any hint on why the applet doesn't show?

TIA
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Luca

On Wednesday 24 June 2009 12:38:48 Luca Olivetti wrote:

> Today a kde4.2 update showed up in my wife's acer aspire one.
> kde4powersave didn't work with the aao, so I used guidance-power-manager
> instead.
> Kde4.2 uses powerdevil instead of kde4powersave, so I tried to uninstall
> guidance-power-manager and install plasma-krunner-powerdevil.
> Powerdevil seems to work as configured in the kde control panel, but I
> cannot add a battery applet, since it doesn't appear in the list of
> applets to add (there are other applet installed that don't appear there).
> I'm kinda puzzled since I have another laptop where the battery applet
> is there, however that was already using kde from the kde repositories
> (also updated today to the "official" 4.2.4) and I never used
> guidance-power-manager there.
>
> Any hint on why the applet doesn't show?
>

You've confused me, Luca :-)  In MDV 2009.1 I simply typed 'power' into the

install widget's search line, and installed the battery monitor offered.  Are
you saying that isn't there, or doesn't work since you changed something?

rpm -qa | grep power
plasma-krunner-powerdevil-4.2.2-18mdv2009.1

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[Luca Olivetti-2]

En/na Anne Wilson ha escrit:

>>
>> Any hint on why the applet doesn't show?
>>
> You've confused me, Luca :-)  In MDV 2009.1 I simply typed 'power' into the
> install widget's search line, and installed the battery monitor offered.  Are

Sure, that's the same as my other laptop (the search is different due to
localization but it's the same) where I can see the battery monitor.


> you saying that isn't there, or doesn't work since you changed something?

in the acer aspire one it isn't there (as many other applet I know are
installed) . Remember, this is 2009.0 with the latest upgrade to kde 4.2.4.
In theory it should be the same as the other laptop.

>
> rpm -qa | grep power
> plasma-krunner-powerdevil-4.2.2-18mdv2009.1


$ rpm -q plasma-krunner-powerdevil
plasma-krunner-powerdevil-4.2.4-0.2mdv2009.0

Bye
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Luca

[A Rojas-2]

Luca Olivetti wrote:


>
> $ rpm -q plasma-krunner-powerdevil
> plasma-krunner-powerdevil-4.2.4-0.2mdv2009.0
>

That is not the applet. That is the runner that lets you control powerdevil
via krunner (aka Alt+F2). The applet is plasma-applet-battery

[Luca Olivetti-2]

En/na A Rojas ha escrit:
> Luca Olivetti wrote:
>
>
>> $ rpm -q plasma-krunner-powerdevil
>> plasma-krunner-powerdevil-4.2.4-0.2mdv2009.0
>>
>
> That is not the applet. That is the runner that lets you control powerdevil
> via krunner (aka Alt+F2). The applet is plasma-applet-battery

That was it, thank you!

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Luca

On Wednesday 24 June 2009 18:14:45 A Rojas wrote:
> Luca Olivetti wrote:
> > $ rpm -q plasma-krunner-powerdevil
> > plasma-krunner-powerdevil-4.2.4-0.2mdv2009.0
>
> That is not the applet. That is the runner that lets you control powerdevil
> via krunner (aka Alt+F2). The applet is plasma-applet-battery

That's interesting.  Myn Fedora11 on the Acer Aspire One has a battery on the
panel, but 'rpm -qa | grep battery' doesn't find it.  Is it not a separate
package?

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[A Rojas-2]

Anne Wilson wrote:

>
> That's interesting.  Myn Fedora11 on the Acer Aspire One has a battery on
> the
> panel, but 'rpm -qa | grep battery' doesn't find it.  Is it not a separate
> package?
>
> Anne

It's in kdebase-workspace. Mandriva splits all kde source packages into
smaller packages containing individual applications/applets, while Fedora
doesn't. That's why you also don't have separate konqueror/dolphin/kopete
etc. packages in Fedora but you have them in Mandriva.

On Wednesday 24 June 2009 19:09:40 A Rojas wrote:

> Anne Wilson wrote:
> > That's interesting.  Myn Fedora11 on the Acer Aspire One has a battery on
> > the
> > panel, but 'rpm -qa | grep battery' doesn't find it.  Is it not a
> > separate package?
> >
> > Anne
>
> It's in kdebase-workspace. Mandriva splits all kde source packages into
> smaller packages containing individual applications/applets, while Fedora
> doesn't. That's why you also don't have separate konqueror/dolphin/kopete
> etc. packages in Fedora but you have them in Mandriva.

It would be a lot less confusing if there was one agreed way of working with
these things :-)

Anne
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