[dolphin] [Bug 495553] New: Filelight installer unconditionally uses PackageKit, which doesn't work when the distro has no PackageKit support

[Nate Graham]

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=495553

            Bug ID: 495553
           Summary: Filelight installer unconditionally uses PackageKit,
                    which doesn't work when the distro has no PackageKit
                    support
    Classification: Applications
           Product: dolphin
           Version: 24.08.2
          Platform: Other
                OS: Linux
            Status: REPORTED
          Severity: normal
          Priority: NOR
         Component: bars: status
          Assignee: dolphin-bugs-null at kde.org
          Reporter: nate at kde.org
                CC: kfm-devel at kde.org
  Target Milestone: ---

STEPS TO REPRODUCE
1. Use a distro with no PackageKit support, for example: KDE Linux, SteamOS,
Fedora Kinoite, or OpenSuse Kalpa
2. Don't have Filelight installed
3. Open Dolphin
4. Click on the button on the status bar that shows Filelight-related free
space investigation options when it's installed, and an option to install it
when it's not installed
5. See that it has an "Install Filelight…" button and click it

OBSERVED RESULT
Dolphin shows "Installing Filelight…" and an indeterminate progess bar, but it
never succeeds at installing Filelight.

EXPECTED RESULT
when PackageKit isn't available, either don't show this functionality, or else
try alternative installation methods, such as Flatpak or Snap.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
When Filelight is installed manually from Flathub, the menu entries I would
expect to see in Dolphin appear as expected

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