I understand that KDE's file manager x11-fm/dolphin is supposed to be able to work with MTP devices like an android phone (set up for MTP file transfer) plugged into the USB port. The support for this seems to come from devel/kio-extras which has an MTP port option that is enabled by default and pulls in multimedia/libmtp as a dependency.
Running
Hardware supports seems to be the responsibility of devel/kf5-solid which used sysutils/hal in the past, which is now gone for good. Now sysutils/bsdisks is used for detecting devices like harddisks and optical drives, but what about MTP devices that are by nature not even block oriented? I have the feeling that there are some bits and pieces missing here from either devel/kf5-solid and/or sysutils/bsdisks.
Running
mtp-detect
(which is installed as part of multimedia/libmtp) from the shell happily finds the plugged in device. Yet the device does not show up in dolphin and no mtp: URL I have tried succeeds in accessing the device. So what's missing here?Hardware supports seems to be the responsibility of devel/kf5-solid which used sysutils/hal in the past, which is now gone for good. Now sysutils/bsdisks is used for detecting devices like harddisks and optical drives, but what about MTP devices that are by nature not even block oriented? I have the feeling that there are some bits and pieces missing here from either devel/kf5-solid and/or sysutils/bsdisks.