The next version of KThinkBat has just been released and comes with an overhauled internal battery handling. This will be visible only for those users which have more than one battery in their Laptop. Calculations of summarized remaining time was improved a lot. A new translation into Czech was added (thanks to Martin Samek). Harald Sitter of the Kubuntu team requested me to add some missing license files to the tarball, so that they will be able to include KThinkBat to the next Kubuntu release.

There are still some fuzzy or untranslated messages in some translations. Please update them as soon a possible, that I can provide a message update release for inclusion into Kubuntu (currently, only English, German and Spanish are complete). Hope that my wife can translate it to French after she finished her exams on Wednesday. But native translators are always welcome.

All tickets for the next release of KThinkBat are closed. Some localized strings may have changed since 0.2.7!

This is my call to all translators: Check if your maintained translation is up to date for the next release. For the previous releases new translations came in most cases one or two days after the release happened which led to an small set of untranslated or fuzzy messages for some languages. So, let's try to change the situation with the next release and let the translation and therewith the valuable efforts of the translators go into the next release, just in time.

If your want to provide translations for a new language, this is the time! More information how to translate KThinkBat into your language can be found in the KThinkBat Wiki.

I'm proud to anounce the next stable release of KThinkBat. There are a lot of changes in the usability area of KThinkBat, esp. in the configure dialog. Based on a patch of Luis, I reworked the configuration dialog and decided, to make more internal parameter configurable to fix an issue with uncommon ACPI implementations. The dialog has now three tabs and all options were reordered to fit one of three categories: General, Appearance and Advanced. Users unsure about their concrete ACPI setup can just let the override advanced settings checkbox unchecked and should be fine with KThinkBat's internal default settings.

You can donwload KThinkBat from its homepage. A Gentoo ebuild can be found in my overlay.

KThinkBat 0.2.6 was released today.

Beside more complete translation this version should make those laptop users happy, whose batteries doesn't provided correct power consumption values. On those laptops, older KThinkBat version didn't calculate a relieable remaining time information. This has now changed with version 0.2.6. All users with ACPI or SMAPI-based batteries should be able to use all features of KThinkBat.

You can download KThinkBat from its homepage. Gentoo Linux users can (as always) use my portage overlay.

KThinkBat 0.2.5 is out and brings more complete translations for more languages and a polished icon set (thanks to Luis Guillermo Sobalvarro). The remaining time is now in hour:minutes format instead of just minutes, because it is more readable.

In the next release I have to fiddle with laptops with broken or incomplete BIOS/ACPI implementation which reports no current power consumption. On those laptops, KThinkBat displays no remaining time which makes a graphical battery applet (besides the visual recognition) almost useless. Hope, I can close Ticket #13 and make Luis happy, as he contributed since KThinkBats beginnings nicer and nicer icons and a Spanish translation.

Jackage
Jackage is a package management system for Java archives (JAR) and Java-based projects. (Early development stage).

USIP - UltraSound Image Procssing for FRC-TEE
USIP ia an Analysis and Video/Image Procressing Software for medical ultrasound signals to assist the Fragment Reconstruction of Coronary Arteries by Transesophageal Echocardiography (FRCTEE) method established by Philipp Wild und Rainer Zotz.

KThinkBat - The Battery Monitor for the KDE-Kicker
KThinkBat is a laptop battery monitor for the KDE-Kicker inspired by the "Battery Maximizer" included with IBM ThinkPads.

Gentoo overlay "lefous_portage_overlay"
A collection of build scripts for third party software to use with Gentoo Linux as package repository overlay.

gentoolkit-lefou
Useful helper scrit for the daily administrative work with Gentoo Linux.

LaTeX package: lebenslauf.sty

TWiki Patches

Just a small version update for KThinkBat to version 0.1.6. There are mostly minor changes to the code base and a new ToolTip which is currently not so informative.

The main addition is the new svg icon provided by Luis Guillermo Sobalvarro. He send them to me two month before, but I was to busy with my marriage and the hiking tour in Korsika. So, many thanks to Luis who published the icon under the terms of the GPL.

Is it the latest kernel update I installed on my Gentoo Box (suspend2-sources-2.6.16-r8) or the newly updated xorg-server-1.1.0? Today I recognized while writing some text, that my power consumtion indicator of KThinkBat displays 14 W. And this battery powered and with lightest display backlight. Normaly, it needs arround 17/18 W.

This is great news - my ThinkPad lasts noticably longer on battery power than before.

You can access KThinkBat's subversion repository as anonymous user with any subversion client or webbrowser at https://lepetitfou.dyndns.org/svn/kthinkbat. The https, svn+https and webdavs protocols are supported.

Read more on the KThinkBat site.