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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 Flamingoat »

vasvir wrote: post #177
Flamingoat wrote: post #109

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

With that level of nit picking everything is off and there is no OS / DE with zero inconsistencies. KDE is good for me. I admit that I simplify the interface in a new setup turning off some things but the fact that it gives me that capability is a huge plus for me. KDE Connect rocks by the way...

> With that level of nit picking everything is off and there is no OS / DE with zero inconsistencies.

It isn't nitpicking. Those are like quite noticeable and actually quite bad. By the looks of it, a lot of this has been addressed now. But tbh it shouldn't have been there in the first place.

Of course there isn't any OS/DE with inconsistencies the fact that I spot that within like literally a few seconds on such a basic screenshot is indicative of other issues.

Even if it was nitpicking, to create something of high quality you should be extremely critical of your own work. That is how you actually make improvements.

> KDE is good for me. I admit that I simplify the interface in a new setup turning off some things but the fact that it gives me that capability is a huge plus for me.

Things shouldn't need a bunch of changes out of the box for them to be okay. I find that KDE (and have always had this impression since KDE 2 or 3) is it feels they bung a bunch of features in as a checklist. That doesn't create a good interface.

Unfortunately people will defend it. I am not sure why.

Re: KDE Connect: Enabling communication between all your devices

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Post by The_President »

The_President wrote: post #25

Used to use this all the time, but about six months ago an update broke the ability for two computers I have to interact. Instead the daemon crashes repeatedly until I nuke it.

Recycled thread. Real comment timestamp from a week ago.

Re: KDE Connect: Enabling communication between all your devices

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Post by hagbard_c »

jcgl wrote: post #87
hagbard_c wrote: post #58

Earlier quoted context omitted.

...then why use iOS? Get a de-Googled Android and relish in the power a pocket personal computer can provide when the vendor takes its thumb off the scales.

I don't need software freedom preached to me, thanks. And I'm not going to waste time trying to prove my free software bona fides to you. Suffice it to say: at the time I bought this iPhone 12 mini, there weren't really good options when prioritizing {small form factor,good privacy posture,good security posture,software freedom}.

> > > It’s pretty dreadful on iOS, presumably due to OS constraints. I miss how amazing it was on Android

> > Then why use iOS?

> I don't need software freedom preached to me, thanks

...and we don't need to hear kvetching about self-inflicted punishment. If it was 'amazing' on Android and is 'dreadful' on iOS the solution seems clear.

> Suffice it to say: at the time I bought this iPhone 12 mini, there weren't really good options when prioritizing {small form factor,good privacy posture,good security posture,software freedom}.

Who cares about privacy and security postures? I'd rather have real privacy and security, never mind any posturing done by vendors whom have shown not to be trustworthy anyway.

Mentioning something iOS together with software freedom is as oxymoronic as it gets. There is no software freedom on iOS, you accept what you're offered and say thank you Sir may I have another [1]. Complaining about these well-known restrictions while passive-aggressively defending your choice does not make any sense.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qdFLPn30dvQ

Re: KDE Connect: Enabling communication between all your devices

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Post by cjmoran »

vasvir wrote: post #178
groovybits wrote: post #101

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Legacy KDE apps used to follow this naming convention until the late 2000s, early 2010s. You had apps like Konqueror (web browser, file manager), KMail (email client), Kompose (music score editor), KImages (later rebranded to Krita), and KDevelop (software dev IDE). Modern KDE apps dropped the 'K' prefix and moved to a more recognizable scheme, like: Falkon (web browser), Dolphin (file manager), and Okular (document…

Also spectacle for screenhshots... It took me a while to not try find kscreenshot

Spectacle pops up as the first result in KDE's app launcher when I start typing "snipping tool." Props to whomever decided to add that alias.

Zero props to whomever decided that punctuation from the outer sentence should be injected inside quotation marks.

Re: KDE Connect: Enabling communication between all your devices

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Post by an_guy »

frameset wrote: post #176

I use KDE Connect and discovered a feature I didn't know about the other day. I was watching a youtube video on my computer and my phone rang. The video automatically paused whilst I had my call, then when I hung up, the video continued. Totally seamless. The kind of thing Apple would show off as part of their "continuity" between macos and iOS.

Are you sure it wasn't your wireless earphones that pause/resumed youtube

Re: KDE Connect: Enabling communication between all your devices

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Post by tempfile »

yjftsjthsd-h wrote: post #97
tempfile wrote: post #59

Can this be used without KDE, on another desktop environment? Without systemd, even?

It definitely works on other DEs. As an extreme case, there's even a GNOME extension implementation: https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/1319/gsconnect/ I can't specifically speak to systemd, but it'd surprise me if there was a dependency there; it's not running that deep in the system. Also there's a guix package and they don't use systemd, so that's another mark in favor.

I didn't know there was a guix package! That's actually what I should have asked in the first place. I was thinking of packaging it, I didn't check first.
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