battery life ubuntu 9.04 update #1

The KDE-desktop environment, however, has surprised me. It had a power-management daemon which provided the following profiles; powersave, performance, aggressive powersave, presentation, and Xtreme powersave.

Also, i went through the internet looking for power management daemons which could automate these tasks for me; and i found none. It was a hot summer afternoon, and i was bored. So, i decided to make one by myself. I have`nt started on it yet, i`m just doing a bit of reading on power saving methods for now. I`m hosting a project at codeplex and i`ll release it at its successful completion. Updates on the mini-project`ll be put up here every now and then, though.

i`ve named the project power-Xtended; and the alpha version of it is about done. It`s got only a quarter of the features i`d intended to put in; the GUI is designed using the Glade-interface designer(this`s my first experience with it) and i`ve used python along with it. Here are the improvement-statistics i`ve come across on using power-X.

quite satisfactory, for an alpha, don`t you think? i`ll be releasing the next update, pretty soon, and i`ll need all your help for testing it out on various environments.

UPDATE #2
more features, `n hopefully better power mangagement; powerX beta is almost done. Will be released soon.

UPDATE #3
the project has been moved from www.codeplex.com into a site of its own. The site will be put up here soon. Due to unforseen difficulties, the release has being delayed. Please be patient.