

I don’t believe that is a KDE specific issue. I’ve seen it in most DE’s
It’s more of a mount/file system limitation. For whatever reason you have to explicitly tell the file system that if it can’t connect to something, to timeout.
Add a timeout to your mount rule and if it ends up being unavailable it’ll just timeout instead of freezing your file browser.

Been using this for the past month since I found out Tempo development died.
Works great on my phone.
The Android Auto UI needs work though.
Edit: For classification, it’s the same Android Auto UI as Tempo, since this is a fork of Tempo. I just hope the Android Auto UI gets a fresh coat of paint at some point.
Also, didn’t realize this was posted by you @eddyizm
Thank you for all your hard work in keeping this project going!