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KDE Connect: Enabling communication between all your devices

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Re: KDE Connect: Enabling communication between all your devices

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Post by peatmoss »

CaptainOfCoit wrote: post #120
groovybits wrote: post #118

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Maybe I'm missing something, but what "daemon-style" app tasks are you doing, or expecting, with KDE Connect? Its core functions seem to be quick tasks; sending files, clipboard, remote control, etc. Perhaps my usage is basic in this way - I've never had an issue with using the iOS app as it is.

From the feature list, how do I actually accomplish these things without having the app open on iOS, or at all? - Receive your phone notifications on your desktop computer - Reply to text messages (or even read?)

I don't think those work between iOS and KDE Connect. I would love to be able to type iMessages on my Linux desktop's computer. If I'm wrong about this not working, someone please let me know, but I've never been able to make messages work.

Re: KDE Connect: Enabling communication between all your devices

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Post by vrinsd »

As a happy user of many KDE based programs (konsole, kate, dolphin, etc) it's great to see another KDE piece evangelized.

But can someone state conclusively if Bluetooth-base connectivty in KDE Connect actually works in 2025? I looked into this a few weeks ago and it seemed liked from mailing list posts until Bluetooth functionality in KDE Connect equals WiFi connectivity the feature is not enabled?

When traveling it's much easier to do "point to point" between laptop and phone and in theory Bluetooth can support this easier than WiFi via third-party access-point or having to mess with WiFi direct.

Re: KDE Connect: Enabling communication between all your devices

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Post by sombragris »

dmpk2k wrote: post #52
sombragris wrote: post #17

At least in my use case (as link between Android devices and both Linux/Win PCs) KDE Connect is a real killer app. It enabled seamless integration and saved me lots of hassle and time. It really should get more exposure. I see reports that it doesn't work. These are mostly for distros where Plasma is either rather old or taking a backseat after other environment (usually Gnome). I'm having great results with the late…

How is Slackware doing nowadays? Last release was several years ago, but I need a replacement for Win 10 on my PC.

The stable distribution might be a little dated, but the -current development branch is really solid. In my very subjective impression, it is more stable than many distros' stable releases. If you're not afraid of doing some hand-tuning and configuring things the old ways, you should reeally try it, especially with community packages such as Plasma 6, Chromium and LibreOffice (the latest release).

Re: KDE Connect: Enabling communication between all your devices

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Post by sombragris »

immibis wrote: post #63
dmpk2k wrote: post #52

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How is Slackware doing nowadays? Last release was several years ago, but I need a replacement for Win 10 on my PC.

Why Slackware specifically? You can install any distribution. I use Gentoo btw - not really a distribution so much as a distribution construction kit. There are other popular distros, notably Arch.

In my case, it's my distro since always. I'm not at all one of those h4xx0r types, I'm just a lawyer, translator and theologian (and professor) doing my job with Linux. I started using Linux in May 2000 with a boxed version of Red Hat 6.2, then went to Red Hat 7.1, 7.2, then switched to Mandrake until 9.2 came about, and the dependency hell really irked me. So I searched alternatives. About 2003-2004 (not sure really) I began to use it. It was easy for me to configure it. I always used my Linux on laptops, at that time if I wanted to be online I had to setup a Winmodem, and maybe other hardware. That meant that even on "friendlier" distros such as Red Hat or Mandrake I had to tinker with the command line and config files.

Thus, when the time came, upgrading to Slackware came naturally. And I appreciated that it always was fast and lean, consuming much less resources than other distros. Now that's not so crucial, but in the early 2000's it was quite important.

Slackware was there at the right time, offering me what I needed, and it was fast and lean. And I like its simple approach to system maintenance; I can get a good grasp of the whole system.

Also, at the time Gentoo was just beginning and (again) I was using dialup Internet, paying by the minute, and I really didn't appreciate the prospect of compiling almost everything. Other distros (such as Arch) were also beginning.

Re: KDE Connect: Enabling communication between all your devices

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Post by qiqitori »

Flamingoat wrote: post #109
bityard wrote: post #92

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My experience is that KDE 6 has very little visual nonsense right out of the box. 4 and 5 did have a lot more, but most/all of it could be disabled. Most other Linux DEs don't really let you customize them to your own personal level of nonsense at any rate.

I probably see a lot more than other people since I spent a good few years doing pixel perfect web dev. I am not being hyperbolic when I say that I can see a pixel out of place on a webpage on the other side of the room. https://kde.org/content/home/main.jpg This is a screenshot from their site. Just in this screenshot I see the following: 1) there is an horrendous text shadow effect on the text under the "Home" desk…

I disagree with all your points. What gives?

Re: KDE Connect: Enabling communication between all your devices

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Post by foresto »

gear54rus wrote: post #70
sombragris wrote: post #17

At least in my use case (as link between Android devices and both Linux/Win PCs) KDE Connect is a real killer app. It enabled seamless integration and saved me lots of hassle and time. It really should get more exposure. I see reports that it doesn't work. These are mostly for distros where Plasma is either rather old or taking a backseat after other environment (usually Gnome). I'm having great results with the late…

I definitely have a need for this, but I can't stomach same-network requirement. Maybe they need self-hostable coordination server so that devices can connect to each other through it. For now it's still 'send to telegram saved messages' for me.

> I can't stomach same-network requirement.

The Android app let me add a peer by IP address. Once I opened traffic on the right port, it crossed a network boundary just fine.

My case was an adjacent network, but I don't see any reason why it wouldn't work across more hops.

Re: KDE Connect: Enabling communication between all your devices

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Post by magarnicle »

nickjj wrote: post #132
groovybits wrote: post #94

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For this purpose, I would not suggest KDE Connect. What you're looking for is something more like SyncThing: https://syncthing.net

I thought about SyncThing in the past but was reluctant because I don't have a centralized server and I don't always want 1 device to be the definitive source of truth. For example: - On desktop, wrote a blog post - On desktop, pushed my blog post folder to my laptop - On laptop, publish the blog post 3 days later - On laptop, fix a typo and publish the post - On desktop, pull in the changes from the laptop The same…

Syncthing is very much not about having a centralised source of truth. It gives you options about how things sync - I usually start very paranoid when I set up a sync folder and store all versions of a file if the files are only small, but you can store staggered versions etc.

It will also store all conflicts, which you then can manually resolve.

Another option you have is send-only and receive-only folders.

Like I said, lots of options, a bit of learning but it looks like what you want.

Re: KDE Connect: Enabling communication between all your devices

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Post by happymellon »

immibis wrote: post #139
Flamingoat wrote: post #84

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I use Debian 13 (stable). It is very solid. I was using Debian Trixie when it was testing and there was breakage twice. I would make the /boot partition twice the size the installer suggests though as on my laptop I can't upgrade the kernel because the /boot runs out of space. The laptop is used to view old manuals in PDFs while working on my car so I don't really care. TBH any of the major Linux distros that have be…

Debian is a very solid, stable, but slow-moving distribution.

Remember that Debian uses stable to indicate slow moving and predictable breakage, not "avoids breaking".

I would avoid using those two terms together because it implies two different goals when you are in fact repeating yourself.

Not everyone would consider avoiding fixing bugs as "stable" if those bugs directly impacts your day to day working.

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