Comment 14 for bug 89750

I rated it as low because it only affects a small percentage of Ubuntu users, seems to have no serious side effects, and is easily worked around. It doesn't appear to be a HW bug since others seem to be reporting that power management is working normally, it is just this one applet that is misbehaving. If you really want this to be taken care of, I suggest filing a bug upstream (http://bugs.kde.org/) and linking it to this bug report. They are likely to have more resources available to focus on KDE-specific bugs.