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2.2.5. GNOME Power Manager

The backend program of the GNOME power management infrastructure is gnome-power-manager. It was introduced in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and provides a complete and integrated solution to power management under the GNOME desktop environment. In Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6, the storage-handling parts of hal was replaced by udisks, and the libgnomeprint stack was replaced by print support in gtk2.

2.2.5.1. GNOME Power Management Version Guide

This section will detail what versions of gnome-power-management are shipped with the various Red Hat Enterprise Linux versions.
In general, however, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 ships with GNOME 2.8, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 ships with GNOME 2.16, and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 ships with GNOME 2.28.

Table 2.1. Desktop Components Comparison

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Version
GNOME Power Management Desktop Components
4
5
6
hal
0.4.2
0.5.8
0.5.14
udisks
N/A
N/A
1.0.1
glib2
2.4.7
2.12.3
2.22.5
gtk2
2.4.13
2.10.4
2.18.9
gnome-vfs2
2.8.2
2.16.2
2.24.2
libglade2
2.4.0
2.6.0
2.6.4
libgnomecanvas
2.8.0
2.14.0
2.26.0
gnome-desktop
2.8.0
2.16.0
2.28.2
gnome-media
2.8.0
2.16.1
2.29.91
gnome-python2
2.6.0
2.16.0
2.28.0
libgnome
2.8.0
2.16.0
2.28.0
libgnomeui
2.8.0
2.16.0
2.24.1
libgnomeprint22
2.8.0
2.12.1
N/A
libgnomeprintui22
2.8.0
2.12.1
N/A
gnome-session
2.8.0
2.16.0
2.28.0
gnome-power-manager
N/A
2.16.0
2.28.3
gnome-applets
2.8.0
2.16.0
2.28.0
gnome-panel
2.8.1
2.16.1
2.30.2