Replacing installed KDEConnect with compiled KDEConnect

[Albert Vaca]

Make sure you uninstall the version from the repo before you install the
compiled one!

On Fri, Aug 7, 2015 at 10:58 PM, Ashish Bansal <bansal.ashish096 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> On Sat, Aug 8, 2015 at 10:30 AM, Joshua Christopher <
> joshuadevmail at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> What is the proper way to replace the repository-installed version of
>> kdeconnect with my compiled version of kdeconnect?
>>
>> I've tried killing the kdeconnectd and then running my compiled
>> kdeconnectd, but things just aren't quite working right.
>
> First, I'd expect the icon to disappear when I kill the daemon and
>> reappear when I start my compiled version. This is not so (the behaviour is
>> wonky when a daemon is not running, and sometimes restarts the daemon on
>> some actions).
>>
>> Second, my phone and computer seem to pair up when running the compiled
>> daemon, but none of the plugins are working (i.e. no response to ping on
>> either end, can't browse the device in Dolphin, no battery life in the
>> kdeconnect applet, can't use the remote input, etc.)
>>
>>
> kdeconnect uses  KPluginLoader to find the plugins installed on the
> computer. So, it scans standard directories where Qt plugins are installed
> e.g.
> /usr/lib/qt/plugins/kdeconnect/
>
> It might be the reason that plugins are not working as it's trying to load
> plugins from repository installed version of kdeconnect.
>
> So, you can do two things. Either configure the environment variables like
> QT_PLUGIN_PATH and others, so that application doesn't scans those plugins
> in standard directories and then build/run kdeconnect or remove the
> repository version of kdeconnect and then install the compiled version
> globally and run it.
>
>
>
>> Here is the output from terminal:
>>
>> joshua at joshbuntu:~/Programs/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu$ ./libexec/kdeconnectd
>> kdeconnect.core: KdeConnect daemon starting
>> kdeconnect.core: Broadcasting identity packet
>> kdeconnect.core: KdeConnect daemon started
>> kf5.kiconthemes: "Theme tree: (Breeze)"
>> kdeconnect.core: Device "Samsung Galaxy S4" status changed. Reachable:
>> true . Paired:  true
>>
>> I am installing (using cmake prefix dir) into ~/Programs (and the usual
>> subdirs ./bin ./lib etc.)
>>
>> I'm only concerned with compiling the desktop version for now, Kubuntu
>> 15.04, Plasma 5.2.2, Qt 5.4.1, 64 bit OS.
>>
>> Thank you,
>> Joshua
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