Hi, I had some time to resolve the long outstanding issue I had with loosing upower to systemd.
The only feature I personally had was the battery monitor stopped working, yes, I did not install pm-utils either... So after few times my battery went empty while I worked... decided that enough is enough and I need to learn how to write kde plasmoid. Documentation of kde plasmoid is not great, especially when using scripts, but after looking on various of valid examples, I managed to produce a new battery monitor[1][2] which is very simple and looks decent. All that it does is once per interval read the /status and /capacity and update the images within widget, it does not create a load nor adds dependencies. Install to user home by: $ plasmapkg -i kbatsysfs-1.0.0.plasmoid I hope someone will find this useful, Alon [1] http://kde-apps.org/content/show.php/kbatsysfs?content=168436 [2] https://github.com/alonbl/kbatsysfs
