Memory usage of gnome-power-manager 2.16.x : 2.7MiB
Memory usage of gnome-power-manager 2.17.x : 1.7MiB

On a side note, gnome-power-manager 2.16.x was pretty much synchronous with hard-coded sequences of operations and functions depending on events. 2.17.x is much better code IMO, with most of the events happening asynchronously and with separate state machines. This makes the code much easier to understand and modify, and should squash some weird timing bugs. It also makes adding new functionality as easy to add as dropping in a couple of gobjects and hooking up some signals.

CVS versions of hal, hal-info, pm-utils, PolicyKit, libnotify, GtkUnique and of course gnome-power-manager are in the utopia FC6 repo. Caveat emptor.

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Richard has over 10 years of experience developing open source software. He is the maintainer of GNOME Software, PackageKit, GNOME Packagekit, GNOME Power Manager, GNOME Color Manager, colord, and UPower and also contributes to many other projects and opensource standards. Richard has three main areas of interest on the free desktop, color management, package management, and power management. Richard graduated a few years ago from the University of Surrey with a Masters in Electronics Engineering. He now works for Red Hat in the desktop group, and also manages a company selling open source calibration equipment. Richard's outside interests include taking photos and eating good food.