KDE Connect 1.10 released • Hacker News Board

Re: KDE Connect 1.10 released

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Post by emilsedgh » Mon, Nov 05, 2018, 5:15 PM UTC

floatboth wrote: post #60

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 Heh, I remember an app like that in the Apple world from back when the iPhone 4 was new. Does it pause any D-Bus MPRIS compatible player? How deeply KDE-specific is it, in general?

It does pause and it's not KDE specific at all. There are Gnome parts to it and if I recall it also works in Windows.

Re: KDE Connect 1.10 released

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Post by saghm » Mon, Nov 05, 2018, 5:59 PM UTC

swebs wrote: post #45

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.

Is this still true for the newer (i.e. "touchbar") models? From what I've heard, it's very hard to get Linux working well on those, and that even things like the wifi card aren't supported yet

Re: KDE Connect 1.10 released

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Post by emilsedgh » Mon, Nov 05, 2018, 6:25 PM UTC

akerro wrote: post #38

debt wrote: post #37

“pauses for a call, incoming or outgoing” This is a pretty standard feature on most mobile operating systems. It’d be like saying “I like the how I get a notification when I receive an sms”

Does it also pause youtube (or any other in browser multimedia) or other platforms?

It does if you have plasma-browser-integration extension on your browser.

Re: KDE Connect 1.10 released

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Post by lph » Mon, Nov 05, 2018, 7:09 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…

KDE Connect is really fantastic. I recently switched to an iPhone and I miss KDE Connect so much :( Now I have to go through all kinds of ridiculous antics just to copy a file over to my phone, when it used to be so easy.

Re: KDE Connect 1.10 released

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Post by 0xb100db1ade » Mon, Nov 05, 2018, 7:38 PM UTC

curiousgal wrote: post #31

Anyone got this working on Arch with i3?

I have gotten it to work on NixOS with it. I've read that it also works with Arch.

Make sure kdeconnectd is running, that your appindicator tray bar is working, and that your devices are on the same network

Re: KDE Connect 1.10 released

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Post by oAlbe » Mon, Nov 05, 2018, 8:58 PM UTC

unhammer wrote: post #55

kasbah wrote: post #30

Earlier quoted context omitted.

In a similar vein, I am not on Gnome or KDE but have been using the basic kdeconnect functionality, such as sharing clipboard and transferring files, through kdeconnect-cli quite happily. It comes with the standard kdeconnect installation I believe. http://manpages.org/kdeconnect-cli

still, on my xubuntu system sudo apt install kdeconnect --no-install-recommends wants to install 101 packages :(

That's the joy of Qt for you.

It shouldn't be so bad though, the whole set of packages is probably a couple hundred of MB, IIRC.

Re: KDE Connect 1.10 released

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Post by BonesJustice » Mon, Nov 05, 2018, 10:08 PM UTC

jamesgeck0 wrote: post #56

emilsedgh wrote: post #7

I miss my Android phone because of KDE Connect. I wish it was available on iOS.

It seems to provide a lot of the functionality of macOS Continuity[1], and then some. It's a shame we can't hook into that stuff on iOS, since it's already capable of doing a lot of this. 1. https://www.apple.com/macos/continuity/

The Apple "experience" includes lots of little niceties that only work with Apple software running on Apple hardware (or, for those who live dangerously, a "Hackintosh").

The touchpad on my 2013 MacBook Pro doesn't click properly anymore, and I don't much care for the newer models, so I ended up buying a ThinkPad X1 Extreme (running Linux). Unfortunately, it's meant giving up lots of little things like iMessage integration, AirDrop, Continuity, synchronization with iCloud, etc.

Yes, several of these features have alternatives that do work nicely on Linux, but the experience usually isn't as seamless, especially on the iOS side. And while most of the bits above could probably be reverse engineered, I can totally understand why open source developers (many of them volunteers) might not be enthusiastic about spending their time improving compatibility with a closed platform that won't reciprocate.

Re: KDE Connect 1.10 released

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Post by wink » Tue, Nov 06, 2018, 9:56 AM UTC

Meh, first time I heard about this and of course I wanted to try it. But (as I could have imagined) it says it will only discover other devices on the same local network - but my mobile is in my work's guest network, whereas my laptop is in the internal network. So yeah, this won't fly unless I can think of some VPN trickery :(