pics in SMS

[Simon Redman]

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On 3/5/21 4:25 PM, Simon Redman wrote:
> Hi Sheila,
>
> KDE Apps 20.12 and Ubuntu 20.12 are different things. They were 
> released in the same month and by "coincidence" they have the same 
> naming convention for releases.
>
> Since the KDE 20.12 apps were released at the same time as Ubuntu 
> 20.12 (December 2020) and since Ubuntu needs to prepare packages for 
> the apps to include in the release months in advance, Ubuntu 20.12 
> doesn't have the KDE Applications 20.12 release.
>
> The Ubuntu packages webpage can give us the versions. It looks like 
> there is version 1.4 in Focal 
> <https://packages.ubuntu.com/search?suite=focal&searchon=names&keywords=kdeconnect> 
> (before we switched to using KDE Applications' release naming, 
> equivalent to 19.12) and KDE Connect 20.08 in Groovy 
> <https://packages.ubuntu.com/search?suite=groovy&searchon=names&keywords=kdeconnect>.
>
> From a different mail on this thread Aishen says that KDE Connect 
> 20.12 is in the pre-release version of Ubuntu (hirsute 
> <https://packages.ubuntu.com/search?suite=focal&searchon=names&keywords=kdeconnect>).
>
> kdesrc-build is designed to be fairly painless so it could be an easy 
> way to get this package updated. There used to be backport repos of 
> KDE software for Kubuntu but it doesn't seem to be updated any more: 
> https://launchpad.net/~kubuntu-ppa/+archive/ubuntu/backports
>
> P.S., (K)Ubuntu is a great desktop and server operating system if you 
> want stability because of this policy of using old-but-stable versions 
> of packages, but the downside is that you are stuck on those 
> old-but-stable versions :(
>
> Thanks,
> Simon
>
> On 3/4/21 7:35 AM, myviolinsings wrote:
>> Simon,
>> When you said:
>> "The feature was committed to master in August 
>> (see:https://invent.kde.org/network/kdeconnect-kde/-/commit/0b3d6bee85de52e228b29df6b68b8d8eca1527ff) 
>> <https://invent.kde.org/network/kdeconnect-kde/-/commit/0b3d6bee85de52e228b29df6b68b8d8eca1527ff)>and 
>> I believe it's therefore in the 20.12 KDE Apps release."
>>
>> Are you referring to Ubuntu 20.12? Are KDE Plasma version numbers 
>> different from kdeconnect versions? Sorry, but I clicked the above 
>> link for anouncement and got a 404 page not found; however, I would 
>> like to update KDEconnect outside of Ubuntu if that's possible as I 
>> do not want to switch distros, being in love with Kubuntu.
>>
>> I have never "built" anything in Linux and am a bit afraid to try if 
>> I can update it another way. But if that is the only way, rather than 
>> switch from Kubuntu, I will attempt.
>>
>> Thanks for your help. Funny the other email I got told me this was 
>> not available and to just live with it using something else.  Hmmm.
>>
>> 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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>>
>> ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐
>> On Wednesday, March 3, 2021 7:46 PM, Simon Redman 
>> <simon at ergotech.com> wrote:
>>
>>> 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) 
>>> <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 
>>> <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*
>>>
>>>
>>>     Sent with ProtonMail <https://protonmail.com> Secure Email.
>>>
>>
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