Many other changes have been made to the package

May 26, 2015 11:56 GMT  ·  By

Xfce's Power Manager was getting behind the times, but it has been updated and ported to GTK+ 3.14. As you can imagine, this is an important update, and it packs other changes as well.

Some of the more astute users might have noticed that the Xfce Power Manager has been lagging a little bit behind, especially now that a major new update for Xfce in the wild for a couple of months. It took the developers a while to make the necessary upgrades, but they are finally here. It's still a development release, and it needs further testing, but the changes are quite exciting.

You might think that power manager is not something that you need to be concerned about, but the truth is that many users will immediately see if something doesn't feel right. It's quite possible that some people don't really care about what the Xfce's Power Manager looks like, but the update is about more than just that.

Xfce Power Manager 1.5.0 is out

Users won't be able to test this immediately because it's not available by default just yet in any distribution, but technically you can download the source package and compile the new version. It's safe explanatory that you shouldn't use a production machine for this.

"This software is a power manager for the Xfce desktop, Xfce power manager manages the power sources on the computer and the devices that can be controlled to reduce their power consumption (such as LCD brightness level, monitor sleep). In addition, xfce4-power-manager provides a set of freedesktop-compliant DBus interfaces to inform other applications about current power level so that they can adjust their power consumption," reads the official announcement.

According to the changelog, the settings dialog has been ported to GtkApplication, the panel plugin now uses UPower's icon names, symbolic icons are now used for the panel plugin, colored icons have been implemented for the systray icon, the settings dialog now has a unique icon name, the UPower dependency has been raised to version 0.99, gdbus is now used, and the LXDE panel plugin has been dropped.

You can download the source package for the new Xfce Power Manager 1.5.0 from Softpedia.