On 4/23/25 3:37 PM, Jim via tde-users wrote:
That seems like overkill. Why not just start up the file manager of one of
the other DEs, access the camera, and then kill that file manager?
There is an old adage that old dogs can't learn new tricks. That proverb
is misleading. Old dogs can learn new tricks. They just prefer not to.
Statler and Waldorf might comment about my intelligence too.
From within TDE I launched KDE Dolphin. I have overconfigured the
Dolphin "Places" panel because no "Devices" appeared.
From within TDE I launched Xfce Thunar. In the navigation panel was a
"Devices->Android" option. Selecting /Internal Storage/photos/ showed no
files but selecting /Internal Storage/DCIM/100KAIOS/ found a fresh
photo. That latter file path and method is the same as when I connect my
Canon PowerShot camera with a USB cable.
From within TDE I launched KDE Konqueror, which I seldom use and
haven't done any overconfiguring like KDE Dolphin. KDE Konqueror showed
a "Remote->MTP Devices" option but nothing appeared there.
I returned to KDE Dolphin and tinkered until I could display Devices.
Like Thunar, an "Android" device appeared but selecting that option
resulted in an error message that no such device existed. Oddly the full
device file path was in the error message.
I toggled to a different console and logged in as a different user with
KDE. From within KDE both Dolphin and KDE Konqueror allowed me to browse
the phone with no problems. The Location bar in both showed "mtp:" but
since TDE does not support MTP I guess that point is moot.
Similarly with logging in with Xfce. In addition to Thunar readily
recognizing the device, an "Android" icon appeared on the desktop.
Launching KDE Dolphin and Konqueror from within TDE seems to indicate
the tools see a device but fail to show anything because some kind of
handshake or process notification is missing from the full KDE
environment. Possibly playing with some KDE environment variables might
help use those tools within TDE, but probably not worth my time since
Xfce Thunar recognizes the device with no fuss.
As Oddball (Kelly's Heroes) might say, "Woof, woof." Old dogs can learn
new tricks.
I guess that raises the question of whether there is a wish list item in
the bug tracker to add MTP support. I did not find any such issue but
I'm not clever with that gitea interface.
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