KThinkBat - The Battery Monitor for the KDE-Kicker

Latest Stable Version is 0.2.9.

KThinkBat is a laptop battery monitor for the KDE-Kicker written by Tobias Roeser. It is inspired by the "Battery Maximizer" included with IBM/Lenovo Think Pads, but not limited to.

Although there are allready some battery monitor applications for the K-Desktop Environment, they ar mostly too small to realize the current battery charge at first blush. Additionally, KThinkBat shows the current power consumption of the laptop, brings support for a second battery and its layout is highly customizable.

Features of KThinkBat

• display of current battery fuel in percent and visual as gauge
• display of the current online/offline state
• display of the current power consumption in W (or A on Asus Laptops)
• display of the remaining battery powered running time and optionally remaining charging time
• optional use of the Think Pad SMAPI BIOS through the sysfs interface provided by the tp_smapi driver (automatically detected)
• batteries can be display separatelly or in an combined/summarized view
• complete customizable Layout including, positions, sizes, color, fonts, values
• translations into different languages: Bulgarian, Czech, English, German, Italian, Polish, Slowak, Spanish

• More advanced configuration options not available through the setting dialog.

Author

Tobias Roeser (le dot petit dot fou at web dot de)

License

KThinkBat is released under the GNU General Public License (GPL), Version 2.

Screenshots

Download and Installation

• Download KThinkBat
• Install KThinkBat

Bug Reports, Feature Requests, Send Patches

• Post a Bug Report or a Feature Request
• Contribute to KThinkBat

Developer Information

• KThinkBat Blog

• Roadmap
• Brainstorming
• ChangeLog
• Todo-List

• Post a Bug Report or a Feature Request
• Contribute to KThinkBat
• Translate KThinkBat
• List of Contributors
• List of public Releases

Links

• KThinkBat Blog
• Homepage of Tobias Roeser
• ThinkWiki: Good ressources for all Think Pad users.
• Linux Kernel Driver for the Think Pad SMAPI BIOS: tp_smapi
• K-Desktop Environment (KDE)
• kde-apps.org: Collection of usefull KDE-Applications
• TuxMobil: Linux Laptop and Notebook Installation Survey for Lenovo (former IBM)
• Gentoo Forums: one of the best Linux (and of course Gentoo) related forums