Shouldn't KJobWidgets when not having a kuiserver running just display a traditional dialog box? I don't see why you would need kuiserver

Unfortunately it does not display anything.

Please see:
https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/48031
https://rohlix.wordpress.com/2016/08/19/krusader-copymove-dialog-not-visible/

Can you try with Dolphin? It should use the same KIO infrastructure. If that's also broken the issue lies elsewhere.

I'll try that, and I'll get back to you once I've built dolphin and it's dependencies.

I've tried dolphin, but it didn't display anything (copied a large folder full of movies from one drive to another).
Meanwhile, I've done some digging, and according to arch devs dolphin needs kuiserver also:
https://www.archlinux.org/packages/extra/x86_64/dolphin/
I's not even optional it is a hard dependency, although I was able to build dolphin without it.

Let's re-assign to KIO then which provides DynmicJobTracker. When I quit plasmashell I get a fallback dialog but it seems it still goes through kuiserver as it starts the service when not running.

So, do you want me to open a bug against KIO?

I've opened a bug against KIO: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=381672
Please keep this one open for a while, as I've posted a link which points to this bug report in my first comment. Many Thanks!

You could build standalone kuiserver with an small patch(es)

For that you need add a custom cmake file which sets things kuiserver needs..

eg a kuiserver/Custom.txt with something like :

set(QT_MIN_VERSION "5.7.0")
set(KF5_MIN_VERSION "5.34.0")
find_package(ECM 1.8.0 REQUIRED NO_MODULE)
set(CMAKE_MODULE_PATH ${ECM_MODULE_PATH} ${ECM_KDE_MODULE_DIR})

include(KDEInstallDirs)
include(KDECMakeSettings)
include(KDECompilerSettings NO_POLICY_SCOPE)
include(ECMPackageConfigHelpers)
include(ECMMarkNonGuiExecutable)
include(CMakePackageConfigHelpers)
include(WriteBasicConfigVersionFile)
include(CheckIncludeFiles)
include(FeatureSummary)
include(ECMOptionalAddSubdirectory)
include(ECMQtDeclareLoggingCategory)
include(KDEPackageAppTemplates)


find_package(KF5 ${KF5_MIN_VERSION} REQUIRED COMPONENTS
                    ItemViews Notifications KIO XmlGui DBusAddons I18n Init)


( please note this is just an example after an quick loook )

then change kuiserver/CMakeLists.txt and include(Custom.txt) as first line.


Now cd kuiserver && mkdirp -p my_build && cd my_build && cmake ..

Ofc this is just an _workaround_ for you so you can test things..

Regards

I was able to build it with my own workaround by using the following in the source directory:
sed -i -e '/ Baloo)/d;/SysGuard/d;/KF5XmlRpcClient/d;s/DocTools Runner JsEmbed/DocTools/' CMakeLists.txt
(this solution is backward compatible with the 4.8 branch where baloo was among the required packages)
Of course for this to work I still need kdelibs4support, so I'll definitely try your solution. Thanks for the idea!

I've tried it, the result:

CMake Error at CMakeLists.txt:46 (install):
  install FILES given no DESTINATION!


CMake Error at CMakeLists.txt:54 (kf5_add_kdeinit_executable):
  Unknown CMake command "kf5_add_kdeinit_executable".


CMake Error in CMakeLists.txt:
  No cmake_minimum_required command is present.  A line of code such as

    cmake_minimum_required(VERSION 3.7)

  should be added at the top of the file.  The version specified may be lower
  if you wish to support older CMake versions for this project.  For more
  information run "cmake --help-policy CMP0000".


-- Configuring incomplete, errors occurred!

I am (unfortunately) not familiar with cmake's syntax, so I don't know what to do next. Any ideas?

(In reply to Miklos Karacsony from comment #11)
> I've tried it, the result:
> 
> CMake Error at CMakeLists.txt:46 (install):
>   install FILES given no DESTINATION!
> 
> 
> CMake Error at CMakeLists.txt:54 (kf5_add_kdeinit_executable):
>   Unknown CMake command "kf5_add_kdeinit_executable".
> 
> 
> CMake Error in CMakeLists.txt:
>   No cmake_minimum_required command is present.  A line of code such as
> 
>     cmake_minimum_required(VERSION 3.7)
> 
>   should be added at the top of the file.  The version specified may be lower
>   if you wish to support older CMake versions for this project.  For more
>   information run "cmake --help-policy CMP0000".
> 
> 
> -- Configuring incomplete, errors occurred!
> 
> I am (unfortunately) not familiar with cmake's syntax, so I don't know what
> to do next. Any ideas?

Sorry, I simply forgot to add the includes. Now it works fine, although I had to add cmake_minimum stuff to CMakeLists.txt instead of adding it to Custom.txt

Created attachment 106310 [details]
Patch to allow building kuiserver as a standalone package

Attached patch just in case someone else faces the same problem. Tested, and it works. Thank you for your help!

(In reply to Miklos Karacsony from comment #11)
> I've tried it, the result:
> 
> CMake Error at CMakeLists.txt:46 (install):
>   install FILES given no DESTINATION!
> 
> 
> CMake Error at CMakeLists.txt:54 (kf5_add_kdeinit_executable):
>   Unknown CMake command "kf5_add_kdeinit_executable".
> 
> 
> CMake Error in CMakeLists.txt:
>   No cmake_minimum_required command is present.  A line of code such as
> 
>     cmake_minimum_required(VERSION 3.7)
> 
>   should be added at the top of the file.  The version specified may be lower
>   if you wish to support older CMake versions for this project.  For more
>   information run "cmake --help-policy CMP0000".
> 
> 
> -- Configuring incomplete, errors occurred!
> 
> I am (unfortunately) not familiar with cmake's syntax, so I don't know what
> to do next. Any ideas?


Well some things missing :)

This seems to work here :

http://ftp.frugalware.org/pub/other/people/crazy/this_works_for_me.patch

Would you be interested in submitting your patch using phabricator.kde.org? Don't worry, it's really easy, and we have great documentation: https://community.kde.org/Infrastructure/Phabricator

Is this still a valid issue?

I cannot say, it's been a while since I built these. Close the bug for now, and if it's still an issue in the future I can open a new bug report then.