guidance-power-manager crashes on startup

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1. the specific steps or actions you took that caused you to encounter the problem,
I ran "guidance-power-manager &" in a shell window.

2. the behavior you expected, and
I expected the power-manager widget to startup and go act as it used to do (be on my taskbar and measure my power usage and batery state etc.)

3. the behavior you actually encountered (in as much detail as possible).
It didn't start, but put the backtrace I mentioned earlier on on my terminal.

Actually, if you look at the backtrace you see "g" where as when you look in the API of PyKDE it has to be 'g'. So a Char instead of a String. Fixes the problem if you change those quotes.

For the PyKDE API: http://www.riverbankcomputing.co.uk/static/Docs/PyKDE4/kdecore/KLocalizedString.html

After taking a closer look, as the wanted behaviour by the developer is the default one, the best fix would be omitting the last three arguments on the given line (line 786 of guidance-power-manager.py or in ubuntu /usr/bin/guidance-power-manager). Resulting in:
self.BattProgress[batt].setFormat(ki18nc("%1 is discharge rate in Watts", "Discharging (%p%) - %1 W").subs(showrate).toString())

In Python single or double quotes are equivalent as long as you are consistent. 'g' or "g" are fine. "g' is not. The larger problem is that that method is marked 'Not implemented' in the documentation. I'll take a stab at this.

This bug was fixed in the package guidance-power-manager - 4:4.0.83-0ubuntu3

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guidance-power-manager (4:4.0.83-0ubuntu3) intrepid; urgency=low

  * Add debian/patches/kubuntu01-no-ixf86misc.patch to remove ixf86misc
    files from modules/CMakeLists.txt (LP: #245339)
    - ixf86misc is supplied by guidance-backends and is part of Guidance's
      display functionality and not power management
  * Add debian/patches/kubuntu02-klocalize-crash.patch to remove unimplemented
    call to python-kde4 (LP: #244830)
  * Drop ixf86misc related build-deps and depends:
    - libxxf86vm-dev, x11proto-scrnsaver-dev, libxrandr-dev, libxss-dev
    - ${shlibs:Depends} (package is pure Python now)
  * Change guidance-power-manager from arch any to arch all
  * Drop unused build-dep on quilt and remove /usr/share/cdbs/1/rules/quilt.mk
    from debian/cdbs/kde.mk
  * Add simple-patchsys.mk to debian/rules

 -- Scott Kitterman <email address hidden> Sat, 05 Jul 2008 12:13:42 -0400

Strange that those edits did fix the problem for me on my local computer. Anyway, thanks for the fix.