I installed tdepowersave. Clicking the system tray icon pops open a display dialog that does not fit the laptop screen. The 15 inch 1920x1080 screen resolution is not the problem -- the dialog is too long vertically to fit the screen. Try as I might I could not resize the dialog and the dialog has no scroll bar.
The design of this dialog seems untested because many if not a majority of laptop screens are 14 inch -- some even smaller. As with most things I accept my own ignorance and naivety might be to blame. Nonetheless I get the feeling this dialog was designed on a large laptop -- no scroll bar? Or perhaps was tested only on a dual core laptop. (There are other dialogs like this, such as in KControl, that are not resizable and don't fit on a laptop screen)
One issue here is the laptop CPU is 4-core, but 8 threads. The dialog code (actually the kernel code) interprets this as 8 cores. While CPU usage is interesting, I think the information is superfluous to energy saving. Most people, at least me, are concerned only with the batteries.
* Is there a way to resize this dialog? I tried clicking the title bar, using Move and Resize to no avail.
* Is there a way to remove the CPU usage information? Nice info but not needed here.
* Is there a way to configure tdepowersave not to automatically start when there is no battery? The user account I use on my laptop is synced to my office desktop where there are no batteries and no real concern with energy usage.
Not too get carried away. Seems to be a decent tool but as often is the case, I seem to be a user outside the expected usage bell curve.
Thanks.