[tde-users] Re: Laptop Brightness Keys

On Thu, 28 Nov 2024 15:15:01 -0600 Darrell Anderson via tde-users <users(a)trinitydesktop.org> wrote: Actually, my bet would be that the other DEs are using something like the ACPI monitoring method Nik suggested. To my eye, the code here has all the hallmarks of a hack that was put in because, in 2004, better methods either didn't exist or couldn't be guaranteed to work on most hardware (since devices from the 1990s that didn't support ACPI were still in use). A commit message from the KDE repository in 2008 notes: "removing to unmaintained/4: ksim, kmilo, klaptopdaemon Noone has been interested to care for this codebase for some time, a public call for maintainer did not change this." Thereafter, kmilo doesn't appear in the tree for any KDE release milestone. They probably rewrote their support for extended laptop keys from scratch. E. Liddell