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Re: KDE Connect 1.10 released

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Post by sametmax » Mon, Nov 05, 2018, 1:19 PM UTC

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…

Yes, it rocks.

kitinerary also looks promissing : https://github.com/KDE/kitinerary

Re: KDE Connect 1.10 released

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Post by all2 » Mon, Nov 05, 2018, 1:41 PM UTC

curiousgal wrote: post #31

Anyone got this working on Arch with i3?

Glad to know I'm not the only one here running that combo. Unfortunately, my phone is from the dark ages so I won't be able to verify that it works.

Re: KDE Connect 1.10 released

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Post by Jonnax » Mon, Nov 05, 2018, 1:48 PM UTC

toyg wrote: post #20

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.

I guess if you want to guarantee KDE compatibility. KDE support a laptop called the slimbook: https://kde.slimbook.es

Re: KDE Connect 1.10 released

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Post by Jonnax » Mon, Nov 05, 2018, 1:52 PM UTC

oliloz wrote: post #14

distances wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

Refuse to give them infrastructure? You seem to know the recipe to kill an open source project.

Have you considered working in enterprise software?

Re: KDE Connect 1.10 released

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Post by swebs » Mon, Nov 05, 2018, 2:05 PM UTC

toyg wrote: post #20

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.

Macbooks are always a sure thing. They don't have perfect support out of the box, there's always some annoyance, but their popularity and uniformity means that there's always a workaround available on the Arch Wiki. You could say the "community support" is top notch.

Re: KDE Connect 1.10 released

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Post by majewsky » Mon, Nov 05, 2018, 2:07 PM UTC

szemet wrote: post #13

majewsky wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> 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.

I did not hear about KDE connect (maybe because I do not use KDE), but had the exactly same need (control mpv from my couch). I have found this: https://github.com/ndunks/xdotoolweb - I only have one use case so I only run it - using a simple shell script wrapper - together with mpv. It working fine for me, and it does not need a client on the mobile (except a browser), also it is not connected to the KDE ecosystem -…

KDE Connect can be used outside of KDE to a certain extent. I used the clipboard sharing on Sway (a Wayland compositor) by starting kdeconnectd manually in a terminal.

Re: KDE Connect 1.10 released

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Post by arusahni » Mon, Nov 05, 2018, 2:12 PM UTC

toyg wrote: post #20

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.

If you get something that's known to work well with Ubuntu, you could then install KDE Neon, which is bleeding edge KDE over Ubuntu LTS. There's also Kubuntu, but the KDE packages aren't as up to date.

Re: KDE Connect 1.10 released

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Post by Symbiote » Mon, Nov 05, 2018, 2:31 PM UTC

toyg wrote: post #20

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.

If you're already running Linux, then you can install KDE and log in with a different desktop environment. It might be called something like "choose session" on the login screen; it's a long time since I tried this.

Re: KDE Connect 1.10 released

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Post by Piskvorrr » Mon, Nov 05, 2018, 2:32 PM UTC

ekianjo wrote: post #25

ekwogefee wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Thatd not what KDEConnect does at all.

Well...it's one of KDEConnect's functions. I use that, too, but it's not in my most-used KdeC functionality.

Re: KDE Connect 1.10 released

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Post by oelmekki » Mon, Nov 05, 2018, 2:32 PM UTC

arendtio wrote: post #23

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…

Yes, that pause on call feature is pretty cool. If you have the plasma-integration for your browser [1] installed it can even pause your Amazon Prime Video (or Youtube, ...). Assuming you are watching a video on the Amazon website and your phone rings, the video pauses automatically. As soon as the call is over, the video resumes automatically :D Sadly Spotify does something to not let the browser detect how to contr…

Regarding Spotify : I use its desktop client (an electron-like app, but using their own implementation of a browser, if I got this right), and it does properly work with Connect, as it implements the standard media player controls on desktop.

I have an android wear, this allows me to play/pause, next/previous track volume up/down spotify running on my desktop from my wrist, this is super cool (although to be fair, you can also do that with the spotify app on mobile, used to control spotify on desktop).

https://www.spotify.com/fr/download/linux/