Things You Can Do with KDE Connect on Linux • Hacker News Board

Re: Things You Can Do with KDE Connect on Linux

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Post by themoonisachees » Sat, May 13, 2023, 1:23 PM UTC

usr1106 wrote: post #58

Interesting. It even has a native SailfishOS integration. However, last commit a year ago. Oh, well, I guess that's not a huge surprise.

I use it daily. To be quite honest I don't see what needs to be done more beyond security and compatibility fixes. I never had it crash and I honestly can't think of a feature I would like it to have that it doesn't. Sometimes software is complete.

Re: Things You Can Do with KDE Connect on Linux

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Post by jrm4 » Sun, May 14, 2023, 6:58 PM UTC

jasonm23 wrote: post #54

jrm4 wrote: post #44

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There's a lot of space between "necessary" and "convenient" here. Sure, if you know how to root the phone and program it you can do literally anything. But the bigger and more important point is that Android and Apple (whoever the parties are) have perhaps subconsciously colluded to exclude simple and important functions on our phones -- which are no longer "general purpose computers" -- if ANY of these machines are.…

The "wonderful" thing about the profit motive is no collusion is necessary. There will be natural gravity towards inclusion and exclusion of particular features. Innovation centers around potential profit.

See, someone's going to read this and nod "yes, this is why open source doesn't matter at all"

Re: Things You Can Do with KDE Connect on Linux

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Post by jjbinx007 » Thu, May 18, 2023, 5:39 PM UTC

commoner wrote: post #50

jjbinx007 wrote: post #18

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Unfortunately my recent experience with the Windows version was negative. I installed KDE Connect so I could link it with my Steam Deck but the text on the Windows version was completely screwed up to the extent that the UI was completely unusable. After Googling it seems a work around was to disable hardware acceleration but I was reluctant to do that. I wanted to revert back to an earlier version (which apparently…

The Chocolatey package manager for Windows can install old versions of software from its package repo. KDE Connect is listed as a trusted package, with the oldest available version being 1.4.422 (added in December 2020): https://community.chocolatey.org/packages/kdeconnect-kde#ver... Would you mind filing a bug report in KDE's bug tracker for the issue you experienced, if it hasn't already been reported? https://bugs…

Thank you, that's interesting to know. And yes, I will.

Re: Things You Can Do with KDE Connect on Linux

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Post by jjbinx007 » Thu, May 18, 2023, 5:41 PM UTC

g8oz wrote: post #51

jjbinx007 wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Unfortunately my recent experience with the Windows version was negative. I installed KDE Connect so I could link it with my Steam Deck but the text on the Windows version was completely screwed up to the extent that the UI was completely unusable. After Googling it seems a work around was to disable hardware acceleration but I was reluctant to do that. I wanted to revert back to an earlier version (which apparently…

I had the same experience until I rolled back the Windows display zoom from 150% back to 100%. It does make using the app a chore and I end up using it less than I would otherwise.

Ah so that's the culprit. I should have thought of trying that! I'm using a 1440p screen on a 15" laptop so I'm definitely not running at 100% zoom except for certain known apps that demand it. I'll try that and add it to the bug report.