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+Power management applet for Trinity
+
+TDEPowersave is a TDE systray applet which allows to control the power 
+management settings and policies of your computer.
+
+Current feature list:
+ * support for ACPI, APM and PMU
+ * trigger suspend to disk/ram and standby
+ * switch cpu frequency policy (between: performance, dynamic and powersave)
+ * applet icon with information about AC state, battery fill and battery
+   (warning) states
+ * applet tooltip with information about battery fill and remaining battery 
+   time/percentage
+ * autosuspend (to suspend the machine if the user has been inactive for a 
+   defined time)
+ * a global configurable blacklist with programs which prevent autosuspend
+   (e.g. videoplayer and cd burning tools)
+ * trigger lock screen and select the lock method
+ * KNotify support
+ * online help
+ * localisations for many languages
+
+TDEPowersave supports schemes with following configurable specific 
+settings for:
+ * screensaver
+ * DPMS
+ * autosuspend
+ * scheme specific blacklist for autosuspend
+ * notification settings
+
+
+You need the following packages to compile TDEPowersave: 
+
+   - dbus (dbus-devel, dbus-qt3-devel) >= 0.6.x recommended: >= 0.9.x
+   - tdelibs3-devel recommended: >= 3.4.3/3.5.x
+   - pkgconfig
+   - xorg-x11-devel (for detect inactivity and set DPMS)
+
+ and maybe also these packages:
+   - doxygen (for code documentation)
+   - docbook, trinitysdk (handbook) 
+
+ other (may) needed packages for run all TDEPowersave features:
+   - PolicyKit, recommended >= 0.2 
+
+.
+
+Contributing
+--------------
+
+If you wish to contribute to tdepowersave, you might do so:
+
+- TDE Gitea Workspace (TGW) collaboration tool.
+  https://mirror.git.trinitydesktop.org/gitea
+
+- TDE Weblate Translation Workspace (TWTW) collaboration tool.
+  https://mirror.git.trinitydesktop.org/weblate
+
+
+Translations status
+---------------------
+
+### messages
+[![Translations status](https://mirror.git.trinitydesktop.org/weblate/widgets/applications/-/tdepowersave/multi-auto.svg
+"Engage in translating")](https://mirror.git.trinitydesktop.org/weblate/projects/applications/tdepowersave/)
+
+### desktop files
+[![Translations status](https://mirror.git.trinitydesktop.org/weblate/widgets/applications/-/tdepowersave-desktop-files/multi-auto.svg
+"Engage in translating")](https://mirror.git.trinitydesktop.org/weblate/projects/applications/tdepowersave-desktop-files/)