Kubuntu 12.04 LTS should include kio-mtp

[Thiago Jung Bauermann]

Current Android cellphones can only be accessed via MTP, which is not supported at all in 12.04. This leads to user frustration when a very common and simple usecase (plug phone in computer, access it) simply doesn't work at all. It should just work.

I would consider adding kio-mtp to the distribution (pulled in by default, even) as "support for new hardware" and thus falls well into the scope of an LTS update.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Harald Sitter (apachelogger)]

Not a bluedevil thing

[Harald Sitter (apachelogger)]

It builds on precise just fine and I think the rationale for backport is very rationale. However the present snapshot version has l10n problems so right now this is not an option. Also since we supposedly cannot fiddle with the existing dependencies/recommends this will have only limited use as a user needs to explicitly install kio-mtp.

Please also note that even though sensible and possible the final decision on whether this can and should be backported has to be made by the ubuntu-sru team.

At any rate all of this is blocked on the incomplete l10n issue.

[Pali (pali)]

Any news about about kio-mtp in precise? Or at least in kubuntu-ppa repository?

[Pali (pali)]

kio-mtp is in expermiental kubuntu-ppa for quantal. Can it be copied also for precise?

https://launchpad.net/~kubuntu-ppa/+archive/experimental