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| author | Danilo M. <danix@danix.xyz> | 2026-09-14 19:23:11 +0200 |
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| committer | Danilo M. <danix@danix.xyz> | 2026-09-14 19:23:11 +0200 |
| commit | 32f88e68dfa9489ef09408b3dd34180b76357750 (patch) | |
| tree | 5de488805b6e040a1459da58b4e7289ad04c18c3 | |
| parent | f8156ce853b1a74fb0bd6db4c5734a42933daee2 (diff) | |
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docs: record the KDE Connect traps
No D-Bus module means shell-outs and no push; the daemon and the
indicator are separate; the battery plugin is not on every device; and
qdbus reads properties and methods through one call shape.
| -rw-r--r-- | AGENTS.md | 15 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | desktop/README.md | 5 |
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@@ -159,6 +159,21 @@ changing that component. The ones that generalise: device action in the bluetooth module. - **`WifiNetwork.signalStrength` is `0..1`, not a percentage.** The known networks a scan has not refreshed report a cached `1`. +- **Quickshell 0.3.1 has no generic D-Bus module**, only `Quickshell.DBusMenu`. + KDE Connect state therefore comes from `qdbus6` shell-outs, not a binding, + which means there is no push and the drawer polls 5s while it is open. The + poll is gated on the tile's lifetime, since the tile exists exactly while the + drawer panel is loaded. +- **`kdeconnectd` and `kdeconnect-indicator` are separate.** The daemon runs + from a system autostart; the indicator was started from the live Hyprland + config. The phone-to-PC clipboard is the daemon's clipboard plugin + (`KSystemClipboard`), so removing the indicator does not touch it. +- **The KDE Connect battery plugin is not on every device.** `qdbus6` errors on + `.../devices/<id>/battery` for a device without it, so an absent battery is an + empty field, never a zero. +- **`qdbus` resolves a bare `org.kde.kdeconnect.device.<name>` as either a + property or a method**, so `name`, `isReachable` and the `verificationKey()` + method all use the same call shape. ## Theme diff --git a/desktop/README.md b/desktop/README.md index f0345eb..4d1e622 100644 --- a/desktop/README.md +++ b/desktop/README.md @@ -142,6 +142,11 @@ The drawer is the only place network and Bluetooth are managed. The drawer replaces waybar's own network and Bluetooth indicators; removing them is a live-configuration change outside this repo. +The drawer is the only KDE Connect surface, so the `kdeconnect-indicator` +autostart line was removed in the same change. The `kdeconnectd` daemon is a +separate system autostart and stays; the phone-to-PC clipboard is the daemon's, +not the indicator's. + ## Theme `Theme.qml` is a symlink to `shared/Theme.qml`, as in every component here. |
