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Valent Is a KDE Connect Client for GTK-Based Desktops

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Re: Valent Is a KDE Connect Client for GTK-Based Desktops

#21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's a phone app that allows control of your desktop. you can control music, send files, use the camera from your phone to get pictures on the desktop, etc

Doesn’t tell me anything. How does it work? What apps are compatible? How is the connection between devices set up? Wire guard? If not, then what? How does it control apps and receive notifications? At first it sounded to me like an alternative X11 thing I hate it when projects/products only state what you can do (or at least what they envision), and not explaining the actual workings. Especially when data and access…

> How does it work? What apps are compatible?

it integrates in the desktop UI (and standard protocols, e.g. D-Bus, the "share as..." feature, etc) & phone UI (and standard protocols, e.g. MPRIS, the Android "share" feature, etc), it's mostly not about apps but about the shell, although some apps have nice additional integrations through extensions, like firefox.

For instance:

- when I copy on my linux desktop I can paste on my phone

- I can share links, files, etc between phone and desktop trivially (through the usual android feature on the phone, and through right-click in my desktop)

- when I have media playing either in my desktop media player or in web browsers I can control the playback from the phone

- I can use my phone as a remote control when I give talks & presentations

- I see my phone notifications on my desktop

etc

It's really the only thing that makes Android remotely tolerable for me.

Re: Valent Is a KDE Connect Client for GTK-Based Desktops

#23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's a phone app that allows control of your desktop. you can control music, send files, use the camera from your phone to get pictures on the desktop, etc

Doesn’t tell me anything. How does it work? What apps are compatible? How is the connection between devices set up? Wire guard? If not, then what? How does it control apps and receive notifications? At first it sounded to me like an alternative X11 thing I hate it when projects/products only state what you can do (or at least what they envision), and not explaining the actual workings. Especially when data and access…

I am quite the opposite, many projects now just have a wall of text about the technology they use, but completely utred to explain in simple terms what it does. It seems some devs assume that everyone can guess from the tech stack. By all means have a page explaining the technology, but the front page should tell me what I can do with it.

Re: Valent Is a KDE Connect Client for GTK-Based Desktops

#25

KDE Connect is the one "linux" tool where after showing to my partner what it can do she asked me if I could install on her Windows laptop, her tablet, and her phone. It's been extremely practical when exchanging PDFs of (say) traintickets, remote controlling the volume of whichever laptop we connected to the projector for movie night (which was the "tech demo" that convinced her), and so on.

Indeed, kudos to the devs for maintaining a Windows version too!

Re: Valent Is a KDE Connect Client for GTK-Based Desktops

#27
post #2

Perfect! Works great for an alpha release. Few years ago i had kde and used kde connect, but i didn't want that much qt in my life (can't stand it), and switched to gnome. There was gsconnect but it wasn't that realiable. Used that for a while but in the end i switched to sway, becaus twms are great and everything is so much snappier. But one thing was missing, kdeconnect. I didn't want qt, and gsconnect was a gnome…

I've used kdeconnect under various different systems without ever using KDE (well, not since the Konqueror days so it's been a while). It works just fine under awesome, dwm and whatever two of my coworkers are using (some kind of Gnome desktop as far as I know).

Re: Valent Is a KDE Connect Client for GTK-Based Desktops

#29
post #6

I used KDE Connect in the earlier years and am totally blanking out on what it is or does… I assume it forwards data from a KDE desktops widgets?

You know, reading the article would have answered your question, saving your time, my time from (voluntary) responding, and everyone else who reads this comment and subsequently also responds it. I don't mean to be harsh, but really? There is entire bullet point list on the page, and yes, I didn't include it in my response. Ironic.

my time from (voluntary) responding

This one is on you bro.

Re: Valent Is a KDE Connect Client for GTK-Based Desktops

#30
post #25

KDE Connect is the one "linux" tool where after showing to my partner what it can do she asked me if I could install on her Windows laptop, her tablet, and her phone. It's been extremely practical when exchanging PDFs of (say) traintickets, remote controlling the volume of whichever laptop we connected to the projector for movie night (which was the "tech demo" that convinced her), and so on.

Indeed, kudos to the devs for maintaining a Windows version too!

They should probably rename it.
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