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KDE Connect 1.10 released

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Re: KDE Connect 1.10 released

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Post by tyfon »

I've been using this app for several months and it's great. I can see on my desktop when I get messages and reply or see calls and I can control youtube in firefox from my phone and a lot of things in between via the Plasma integration ad-on for firefox.

It's all very seamless and it "just works"!

Re: KDE Connect 1.10 released

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Post by Jedd »

This is an astonishingly useful tool -- I've been using it for years, and I'm always impressed that it's well maintained and getting new features.

From the way my music player (Clementine on KDE) pauses for a call, incoming or outgoing - the media controller from the phone, sms pop-ups on the computer, the file browser and two-way sharing, clipboard mirroring, and a nifty 'find my phone' feature (your computer triggers a phone ring).

There's a few features I've not used but are pretty cool to show off to 'other OS users' -- use the phone as a trackpad, triggering 'run commands', etc.

Re: KDE Connect 1.10 released

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Post by Aissen »

I know this is a personal blog, but this is a good time as any to remember a few points when doing a release announcement:

- describe the project

- link to it

See: https://lwn.net/Articles/397441/ for more guidelines.

Here's a link to KDE Connect's description:

https://community.kde.org/KDEConnect#What_is_KDE_Connect.3F

And Play Store listing: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.kde.kdecon...

Re: KDE Connect 1.10 released

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Post by majewsky »

Jedd wrote: post #4

This is an astonishingly useful tool -- I've been using it for years, and I'm always impressed that it's well maintained and getting new features. From the way my music player (Clementine on KDE) pauses for a call, incoming or outgoing - the media controller from the phone, sms pop-ups on the computer, the file browser and two-way sharing, clipboard mirroring, and a nifty 'find my phone' feature (your computer trigge…

> use the phone as a trackpad

I use the remote control feature (not the trackpad part, but the virtual keyboard) extensively when controlling mpv from the couch. Particularly in conjunction with Hacker's Keyboard for special keys like Alt+F4.

Re: KDE Connect 1.10 released

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Post by yoodenvranx »

KDE Connect is by far the most useful tool I have discovered in the last few years. If you use Linux and Android you should give it a try!

My personal highlights:

- shared clipboard (share urls between devices, write long text on PC and then copy it into a messenger, ...)

- very easily share files (and whole folders) between devices

- music on PC stops when someone is calling

Re: KDE Connect 1.10 released

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Post by oliloz »

I know my message won't be well received here but I wish KDE had a leadership with a pair of balls that could say to developers "stop losing your time on these side projects and polish the core desktop and libraries". There are so many pet projects in KDE while the desktop rots in its instability and lack of polish...
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