Jonathan wrote the kmilo-thinkpad plugin a while back. The idea in the future would be make KDE use the same infrastructure as GNOME and leave the thinkpad /dev/nvram key proxying to the lower-levels.
As noted by Timo above, this is started as root and therefore has (read) access to /dev/nvram, necessary to be able to produce the normal key presses. -- thinkpad nvram nod read-enabled by default https://launchpad.net/bugs/31778 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
