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Pretty sure that vala, meson, ninja, git should be makedepends...

1. do not install to system when building package
2. do not include ${pkgdir} in prefix when configure (@jonathon)
3. do not build source code in package() function

adding DESTDIR="${pkgdir}" before ninja install can help

The last change broke packaging as it's trying to install to /usr during package(). This diff will fix it (and tidy up a couple of other things):

(updated as per @pingplug above)

diff --git a/PKGBUILD b/PKGBUILD
index 4d5517b..631e0de 100644
--- a/PKGBUILD
+++ b/PKGBUILD
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ conflicts=('indicator-kdeconnect')
 provides=('indicator-kdeconnect')
 depends=('libappindicator-gtk3' 'kdeconnect' 'vala' 'python-requests-oauthlib' 'python-gobject' 'libgee')
 makedepends=('git' 'meson' 'ninja')
-source=('git://github.com/bajoja/indicator-kdeconnect.git')
+source=('git+https://github.com/bajoja/indicator-kdeconnect.git')
 md5sums=('SKIP')

 pkgver() {
@@ -21,11 +21,13 @@ pkgver() {
   printf "r%s.%s" "$(git rev-list --count HEAD)" "$(git rev-parse --short HEAD)"
 }

+build() {
+  mkdir build && cd build
+  meson ../$_gitname --prefix=/usr  --libdir=/usr/lib
+  ninja
+}
+
 package() {
-  cd indicator-kdeconnect
-  mkdir build
   cd build
-  meson .. --prefix=/usr/  --libdir=/usr/lib/
-  ninja
-  ninja install
+  DESTDIR=$pkgdir ninja install
 }

Missing dependency: libgee

I think the install step is missing something because no files are actually installed (checked with pacman -Ql).

Thanks @jonathon, fixed!

From commit a15c091fc5c265db5f7091ae20b0ac39ec58db06 upstream have switched from cmake to meson

Thanks, updated.

You should also add python-gobject as dependency (for SMS send)

Compling worked for me without the package, but since its stated in the INSTALL that its required, I added python-requests-oauthlib to the dependencies.