This _unstable_ release contains lots of new features since 2.16.1 was released. ============== Version 2.17.2 ============== Released October 18, 2006 General - Fix up the recent configure change to allow g-p-m to build without libnotity (Frederic Peters) #359824 - Add in preliminary support for detecting batteries that might explode. See http://hughsient.livejournal.com/ for more details. Power Manager - Fix the hal interface so we automatically connect up the device DeviceCondition and PropertyChanged on HAL restart. #349842 - Remove a potential null-dereference, spotted by Joseph Sacco. #356667 - Replace the hardware info pane with a drop-down of devices. #356804 This saves another 200kb from the daemon process. - Add initial support for keyboard backlight device - this works with the Apple Macbook Pro. (David Zeuthen) #357994 - Only load the GpmHal* interface gobjects if we have the hardware. This saves another 100k of writable memory on my desktop PC. - Use the localised general string to describe the battery device in the dropdown. #362690. - Add XEVENTS functionality. This allows g-p-m to respond to events sent by X, as soon the kernel is going to be outputting INPUT events. - Fix up a couple of small memory leaks detected by valgrind. Power Preferences - Fix guniqueapp support for the preferences program (Elijah Newren) and add support in the statistics program. - Make the auto-sleep functionality disable feature easier to understand. Power Statistics - gnome-power-statistics now works instead of the "Information" screen that we used before. As it this is out of process we save 300kb for each instance of gnome-power-manager daemon running. - We can now trivially add new graph types and export them over DBUS. - The statistics application now includes light/dark coloured symbols with different shapes for colour-blind or partially sighted people. - gnome-power-statistics now remembers settings between invocations. - Add a proper tango gpm-statistics tango icon. (Jakub Steiner) - Add an icon the the statistics program to the "System Tools" menu. Translators - Kjartan Maraas (nb) - Hendrik Richter (de) - Yair Hershkovitz (he) - Erdal Ronahi (ku) - Francisco Javier F. Serrador (es) - Priit Laes (et) - Ilkka Tuohela (fi)