pics in SMS

[Simon Redman]

Hi Sheila,

This is supported in the recent releases of KDE Connect.

I can't find the exact release announcement which mentioned this feature.

The feature was committed to master in August (see: https://invent.kde.org/network/kdeconnect-kde/-/commit/0b3d6bee85de52e228b29df6b68b8d8eca1527ff) and I believe it's therefore in the 20.12 KDE Apps release.

Ubuntu is intentionally slow to take new packages and, as far as I understand, only takes bugfixes and not feature upgrades for a particular version. You could look for a backport repo but in general I would recommend looking for a Ubuntu distro upgrade which has the package you want (or perhaps switch distributions if that's the only solution)

You can also build from source, of course. Instructions for how to do so are on the developer wiki https://community.kde.org/KDEConnect#Linux_Desktop . You're likely to hit problems with missing dependencies unless you try to use kdesrc to build.

Thanks,
Simon

On February 26, 2021 9:17:58 AM PST, myviolinsings <myviolinsings at protonmail.com> wrote:
>I have looked on the wiki and forums but at least in English have not
>seen any posts on this. When I send pics or photos in my messaging app
>on phone, viewing the SMS in KDEConnect shows unsupported message type
>and doesn't display the pics. I have tried sending a .png file
>(screenshot) by pasting into the message line in the SMS app on my
>Ubuntu 20.04 system and nothing happens. Is this still a work in
>progress to be able to send photos in a message from KDEConnect? If it
>is something already available, could you point me in the direction of
>how to do so?
>
>Thanks.
>
>Sheila Flanagan
>865.755.5225
>
>“Love is like a violin. The music may stop now and then, but the
>strings remain forever.”
>
>―June Masters Bacher
>
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