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I miss my Android phone because of KDE Connect. I wish it was available on iOS.
Feem can share files and send texts/links between devices without passing through the internet. (Uses LAN)
Works on multiple platforms.
I’m tempted to get another computer just to give KDE another chance. VMs never really do it justice. Are there any recommended hardware manufacturers that are known to work best with it? Most of the typical Linux-centric sellers seem to ship Ubuntu or some other hacked Gnome version, and I’d like to reduce my install effort to the very minimum.
VM's won't provide quite the same level of compositor 3D eye-candy, of course, but that's no surprise.
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…
Sadly Spotify does something to not let the browser detect how to control the player :-/ (it works on many websites, just not on spotify.com)
[1]: Firefox: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/plasma-integr...
[1]: Chromium: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/plasma-integration...
IMHO, KDE Connect is currently one of the best parts of KDE (together with Dolphin and the Nextcloud integration). I use it for a few years now and while my there are only a few use-cases I use regularly, I am always delighted to have it when something unexpected happens. For example, my phone has its own place on my desk and there are just a few places where I put it when it isn't there. A few weeks ago it wasn't on…
I miss my Android phone because of KDE Connect. I wish it was available on iOS.
You can try Feem WiFi on iOS. Feem can share files and send texts/links between devices without passing through the internet. (Uses LAN) Works on multiple platforms.
Something I wonder more and more often, lately, is if Connect should not be responsible to manage notifications.
I've seen that a rewrite of the notification system is on the table [1] to be on par with android's one, and indeed, I would love to have grouping and persistence in my notifications (I currently put the notification widget on my desktop ; it's good enough, but I need to click it to see notifications history and it quickly gets floody, without grouping).
The reason I would love to see it being part of Connect is to make it easy to handle shared notifications between several Plasma installs (currently, I spend a long time tweaking the send and receive notifications plugins in Connect, this works great with two devices, but starts getting ugly with three). I can see this being a killing feature, on Plasma mobile.
I guess users who don't use Connect wouldn't love that much to have a dependency on it for their notification system, though. But since the discussed rewrite seems mobile focus (IIUC), both systems could co-exist : the classic desktop style notification system currently implemented, and the mobile friendly one in Connect, with an option in system settings to select which one we want to use.
[1] https://community.kde.org/Plasma/Notifications#Crazy_Ideas
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You seem to be having some grave misconceptions about 1. How open source projects work, 2. How polished and stable KDE already is, and 3. How useful piece of software KDE Connect is.
1) Of course you can't force contributors to do anything but there are ways: tell them repeatedly there are bugs that need fixing, refuse to give them infrastructure to host their pet projects and make it clear they are not official and can't bear the KDE trademark, etc. 2) Don't make me laugh. 3) I don't even own an Android so I could never know. And that's not the point. I know this is just some ranting and nothing…
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You seem to be having some grave misconceptions about 1. How open source projects work, 2. How polished and stable KDE already is, and 3. How useful piece of software KDE Connect is.
1) Of course you can't force contributors to do anything but there are ways: tell them repeatedly there are bugs that need fixing, refuse to give them infrastructure to host their pet projects and make it clear they are not official and can't bear the KDE trademark, etc. 2) Don't make me laugh. 3) I don't even own an Android so I could never know. And that's not the point. I know this is just some ranting and nothing…
Currently trying to get this to work via Craft (https://community.kde.org/Craft) and hoping for the best meanwhile
If anybody here is using gnome instead of KDE, there is "GSConnect" that allows you to use your current desktop environment with KDEConnect on your android mobile phone. https://github.com/andyholmes/gnome-shell-extension-gsconnec...