Version: (using KDE 4.3.0) OS: Linux Installed from: SuSE RPMs Powerdevil's settings got messed-up, so I stopped plasma and deleted powerdevilrc and restarted plasma. Now I only have "performance" available in the scheme pane. Expected behavior, create default schemes if there are none.
It should already do, although the file for that is powerdevilprofilesrc. Can you please check it?
With an almost KDE 4.3.2 I can still reproduce this. 1. kquitapp plasma-desktop 2. mv ~/.kde4/share/config/powerdevil* ~ 3. plasma-desktop 4. Open systemsettings > power management: only performance is shown. The battery plugin does show more profiles in the drop-down menu. Not sure if it still does after I restarted KDE.
Ah, yeah: that's because powerdevil lives in KDED :) you would have to remove profiles and restart kded to see if that works (anyway, I've recently addressed and fixed a very similar bug for 4.4 that I couldn't backport)
Adding to that: Adding the battery plasmoid does not create anything, neither a powerdevilrc not a powerdevilprofilesrc, yet shows all the (not existing) profiles in the menu. If one opens the power management kcm one cannot pick any profiles for "if the power cable is attached" etc. If one does not change anything but only goes back to the systemsettings main view, a powerdevilprofilesrc is genrated with the following content. [Performance] brightness=100 cpuPolicy=8 idleAction=0 idleTime=50 lidAction=0 turnOffIdle=false turnOffIdleTime=120 A powerdevilrc is still not created.
powerdevilrc is created if needed, systemsettings should reload defaults. Quite easy, I'll solve that quickly. For the applet, I strongly doubt it should attempt any reloading - the only case where I see configuration files deleted and plasma going nuts and not kded is manual user intervention, so I think this should not happen
Restarting powerdevil crashes kded4 but after restarting it those two files are generated and contain all profiles.
Yep, that crash is exactly what I fixed in 4.4 :)
I forgot to close this bug :)