What happened to PM Profiles?

[jeremy1701]

Hello,
There was an update the other day and several things regarding the task bar have changed. Most notably, there are no longer Power Management profiles. Can I get them back or have they moved or have they been replaced? I need the ability to quickly change between 'Presentation Mode' and 'power management mode'.

[SteveRiley]

KDE 4.8 replaced the power management system. User-defined profiles were dropped in favor of three defined presets. The 4.8 release notes briefly explain the change; a screencast has more detail.

Note that you achieve a configuration like "presentation mode" by disabling power management while you're presenting:

[Teunis]

When I read this post I switched it on in the hope the severe memory leak (Bug # 747719) that's been in it for several years would be fixed.
Regrettably kded4 immediately started to grow from 24 MB to 100 MB in some 20 minutes...
The only way I know to stop this is switch off Power Management and restart the desktop.

[SteveRiley]

When I read this post I switched it on in the hope the severe memory leak (Bug # 747719) that's been in it for several years would be fixed.
Regrettably kded4 immediately started to grow from 24 MB to 100 MB in some 20 minutes...
The only way I know to stop this is switch off Power Management and restart the desktop.

That's odd! I just tried it now, and memory usage of kded4 didn't budge.

[Teunis]

It likely has something to do with a particular hardware combination.
This is on a Toshiba Tecra S5 with Intel Core2 Duo T7800, nVida Quadro NVS 130M, Intel sound and Hitachi HD.

Oh yes, it's not a problem on the 3 HP's around the house.