Comment 23 for bug 1871030

I consider anything I can't turn off, that I don't need, I violation of my freedom. On top of this, KDE tries to hide kdeconnect as an auto-start service. I consider that deceptive and dishonest.

I don't need kdeconnect, and I didn't ask for it. Its an unnecessarily-mandatory communication service that screams either anterior motives or foolishness. Either the North Korean government is requiring KDE to run this as spyware, or the developers were just foolish enough to design an unnecessary auto-start service that's hidden, and cannot be turned off.

On non-KDE distributions, I can't even install KATE (an otherwise excellent text editor) without this stupid package being a dependency. That's ridiculous!

This "bug" has been reported a very long time now without resolution. KDE has too much unnecessary interdependence between applications, breaking Unix philosophies that are praised in the Linux community.

Its lazy development to have such tight coupling of modules (that should be optional). If something within an application doesn't have a module it needs, you gray that out instead of making it a mandatory dependency. You can even make it to where, when they click it, it asks the useer if they want to go ahead and install the needed package that would make that feature work.

Here's the thing: I don't mind having a few packages on my system that I don't use, but when one of those packages is an unnecessarily-mandatory (hidden from auto-start) *running service*, that I cannot turn off, that's where I draw the line.

Until more effort is made to bust up this monolith, I bid you farewell KDE.