SUMMARY On Gentoo, it's pretty common to build ALSA-only installation. pausemusic plugin supports muting system volume (via PulseAudio), and for that purpose it's hard depends on KF5PulseAudioQt. However, I'm interested only in pausing functionality through MPRIS, without muting system volume and my installation has no PulseAudio, so pausemusic plugin won't even build. I guess it's possible making muting support conditional if PulseAudioQt is missing, so that it's still possible to use pause functionality of plugin. STEPS TO REPRODUCE 1. Compile kdeconnect on PulseAudio-less system. OBSERVED RESULT pausemusic plugin is missing. EXPECTED RESULT pausemusic plugin is compiled (without muting functionality). SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS Linux/KDE Plasma: Gentoo Linux 2.8 KDE Plasma Version: 5.24.5 KDE Frameworks Version: 5.95.0 Qt Version: 5.15.4
Created attachment 150055 [details] Patch to workaround this on Gentoo I've managed to remove muting support (together with PulseAudioQT dependency) pretty easily from plugin's code as a workaround and compile a working pausemusic plugin. I've attached a patch in case anyone will find it useful. So it should be pretty easy to make muting support optional by adding a couple of ifdefs here and there. Although I'm not sure how to deal with conditional stuff in UI code (QML), etc.
We could make the pausemusic plugin still build without pulseaudio by disabling only the muting feature and not the whole plugin, but I don't think there's enough demand for this.
If you want to submit a patch for that, it's welcome though ;)