gpg ask for passphrase every time although gpg-agent is configured

Question

On Kubuntu Trusty and before, I had the GnuPG agent set up such that it would only ask for the password occasionally, like this:

I have a .gnupg/gpg.conf:

utf8-strings
keyserver-options auto-key-retrieve
default-key 68B8AA90
keyserver hkp://keys.gnupg.net
use-agent
encrypt-to 68B8AA90

And a .gnupg/gpg-agent.conf

pinentry-program /usr/bin/pinentry-qt4
default-cache-ttl 3600
max-cache-ttl 3600

Now after upgrading to Kubuntu Utopic, it asks for the password every single time! The password dialog looks different though, so I suggest that pinentry-qt4 is not started at all.

How can I get it to remember my passphrase?

This is probably the Gnome Keyring interfering. If so, use dconf to configure caching. — Jens Erat, Nov 27 '14 at 13:12
I use KDE and Awesome WM. I would prefer not to use the Gnome Keyring. I updated the question. — Martin Ueding, Nov 27 '14 at 13:17
Have a look at the running processes and see if my guess was right. Or if it is installed at all. I'm not sure whether KDE brings its own keyring acting as gpg-agent. Did you try running /usr/bin/pinentry-qt4 manually? — Jens Erat, Nov 27 '14 at 13:19
I just did ps -e | grep gnome and found 2118 ? 00:00:01 gnome-keyring-d. So you are right. Now that I think about it, the dialog looks like Gnome. How can I deactivate this then and replace by a KDE component? Does NetworkManager depend on this to store the WLAN passwords? — Martin Ueding, Nov 27 '14 at 13:41
Sorry, can't help you with that. But what about starting Gnome Keyring and having a look what's stored in it? — Jens Erat, Nov 27 '14 at 13:45
possible duplicate of How to disable the keyring for SSH and GPG? — Martin Ueding, Nov 28 '14 at 11:35

gpg ask for passphrase every time although gpg-agent is configured

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