I don't have a smartphone, so I disabled kdeconnect widget, but the daemon is always active on plasma startup, and there's no easy way to disable it. It could become a dbus service that gets activated/deactivated depending on the widget state.
There's more interfaces to kdeconnectd than just the plasma widget, kdeconnect-cli for example. You have several options to fully disable it (though these are mostly manual processes): * uninstall * disable the autostart service
Created attachment 110892 [details] attachment-562-0.html From kdeconnect-cli you cannot disable, nor stop the service. You cannot neither disable it from System Settings -> Startup and Shutdown -> Background Services, nor from System Settings > KDE Connect On NEON, probably until KF 5.43, uninstalling KDE Connect would uninstall Spectacle and other pkgs too. As of now, uninstalling Works For Me. P.S. - wouldn't be more correct to call it Plasma Connect then KDE Connect? :D 2018-02-21 19:55 GMT+01:00 Rex Dieter <bugzilla_noreply@kde.org>: > https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=390861 > > Rex Dieter <rdieter@gmail.com> changed: > > What |Removed |Added > ------------------------------------------------------------ > ---------------- > CC| |rdieter@gmail.com > > --- Comment #1 from Rex Dieter <rdieter@gmail.com> --- > There's more interfaces to kdeconnectd than just the plasma widget, > kdeconnect-cli for example. > > You have several options to fully disable it (though these are mostly > manual > processes): > * uninstall > * disable the autostart service > > -- > You are receiving this mail because: > You reported the bug.
KDE Connect used to be shoehorned ontop of a kded module which allowed to disable it from the background services settings, now it's a regular startup application. The only way so far I can see is copy the kdeconnectd.desktop file from /etc/xdg/autostart to ~/.config/autostart and add Hidden=true to the file, that will overrule the system-wide one.
If you don't use KDE Connect at all you can uninstall it. Besides that you can just remove it from autostart. Disabling it when the plasmoid is not active makes no sense since it can be used on other desktop environments as well