Hello, There is first attempt to create a layer between TDE and UPower. Also, there is a small GUI test application, which collect and display all possible information about battery. API documentation: http://www.thel.ro/upower/annotated.html Classes following closely UPower specs: http://upower.freedesktop.org/docs/ref-dbus.html Feedback and suggestions are welcome. Download: (~100k) http://www.thel.ro/tdelibs.tar.gz cmake should be run from top of source tree (tdelibs). -- Serghei