On Tue, Jun 8, 2010 at 10:24, Oddball wrote:
Malcolm showed me an extremely nice app for eee-pc:
http://greg.geekmind.org/eee-control/
I can feel some tension in this list towards this app, but cannot deny the nice look and usefullness of this app. Personaly i think this should be available also to KDE4 users. This app might even consider me to change desktopmanager...
I looked at it... it's the same one I remember using back when I first installed Linux on my Eee. You said you use KDE4? I've found that the CPU scaling feature that the eee-control provides is in a slightly different form in the Power Management part of the KDE4 desktop config. The only thing you don't get is a quick click applet to scale the CPU on the fly. That's something I never did while using the applet anyway. I leave my Eee on Dynamic while plugged in to the wall and it scales the CPU as needed (I think that's teh equivalent of Normal on the applet). I've set it to power save for when it's on battery. Otherwise the applet gave me exactly the same mouse click features as I got either through the Fn keys or the KNetwork manager (turning WiFi on/off) and Systray applets (eg Bluetooth). I haven't seen any way to re-assign the Fn keys to some other function in KDE4 - not that I've tried since I don't need those Fn keys to do anything other than the controls they are designed to do. I took a look at the listed features.... # ACPI support for hotkeys, LCD brightness control and hardware toggles They work out-of-the-box in 11.2 and 11.3, so this is redundant, no? # Toggle hardware (WiFi, Bluetooth, card reader, webcam, touchpad) on and off Can do this without the eee-control via the Fn keys. # Easy graphical configuration of hotkey actions This you cannot easily do (not that I've found) in regular KDE4 (can't speak for Gnome) # Better (finer granularity, more silent) fan control This you cannot easily do in (not that I've found) regular KDE4 (can't speak for Gnome) # Extended LCD brightness (brighter and darker than the default range) I remember being able to turn off the LCD completely using this applet... to the point where I couldn't read the screen anymore. I haven't seen the need for that, so don't miss it. The standard brightness range that is accessible via the Fn+brightness keys has been enough for me. # Notifications/OSD (fully configurable) KDE4 themes do most if not all of the on-screen notifications (eg volume, brightness etc are shown in a progress bar, WiFi enable/disable is shown in a popup etc). So... nothing missing I'm aware of. # Performance control (adjusts FSB and CPU voltage) for saving power and/or overclocking OK, this one is also not easily done without the applet. # gnome-power-manager integration for automatic performance adjustment Done by KDE4 # Monitor for hardware sensors (fan, temperature) Done by KDE4 via desktop widgets. So... other than overclocking, easily tweaking your fan speeds and setting your brightness to zero... what are you missing in KDE4? Serious question - I used to use this applet myself, and stopped using it or looking for it when I installed 11.2 and all my Fn keys worked without it. C. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org