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Re: KDE Connect 1.10 released

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Post by Vinnl »

oelmekki wrote: post #50
arendtio wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yes, that pause on call feature is pretty cool. If you have the plasma-integration for your browser [1] installed it can even pause your Amazon Prime Video (or Youtube, ...). Assuming you are watching a video on the Amazon website and your phone rings, the video pauses automatically. As soon as the call is over, the video resumes automatically :D Sadly Spotify does something to not let the browser detect how to contr…

Regarding Spotify : I use its desktop client (an electron-like app, but using their own implementation of a browser, if I got this right), and it does properly work with Connect, as it implements the standard media player controls on desktop. I have an android wear, this allows me to play/pause, next/previous track volume up/down spotify running on my desktop from my wrist, this is super cool (although to be fair, yo…

Unfortunately you can't install tracking protection for their desktop app, so you'll have to mess with a Pi-Hole or modifying your hosts file or something...

Re: KDE Connect 1.10 released

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Post by ekianjo »

Piskvorrr wrote: post #49
ekianjo wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Thatd not what KDEConnect does at all.

Well...it's one of KDEConnect's functions. I use that, too, but it's not in my most-used KdeC functionality.

What I mean is that it does so much more. Comparing it to a software that does only file transfer does not do justice to the project, and it certainly is not an alternative.

Re: KDE Connect 1.10 released

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Post by RussianCow »

ClashTheBunny wrote: post #36
arendtio wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yes, that pause on call feature is pretty cool. If you have the plasma-integration for your browser [1] installed it can even pause your Amazon Prime Video (or Youtube, ...). Assuming you are watching a video on the Amazon website and your phone rings, the video pauses automatically. As soon as the call is over, the video resumes automatically :D Sadly Spotify does something to not let the browser detect how to contr…

You probably just need to hook into dbus. Do you know if it produces a media key? You can just add this script: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/spotify#D-Bus

The parent was talking about the website, spotify.com, not the desktop application.

Re: KDE Connect 1.10 released

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Post by Piskvorrr »

ekianjo wrote: post #52
Piskvorrr wrote: post #49

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Well...it's one of KDEConnect's functions. I use that, too, but it's not in my most-used KdeC functionality.

What I mean is that it does so much more. Comparing it to a software that does only file transfer does not do justice to the project, and it certainly is not an alternative.

My words exactly.

Re: KDE Connect 1.10 released

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Post by unhammer »

kasbah wrote: post #30
ailox wrote: post #10

If anybody here is using gnome instead of KDE, there is "GSConnect" that allows you to use your current desktop environment with KDEConnect on your android mobile phone. https://github.com/andyholmes/gnome-shell-extension-gsconnec...

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 :(

Re: KDE Connect 1.10 released

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Post by jamesgeck0 »

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/

Re: KDE Connect 1.10 released

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Post by PavlovsCat »

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.

https://en.opensuse.org/Portal:Hardware

OpenSUSE has always been great to me, and always been great to KDE as far as I can tell (which isn't very far, just my personal 2 cents).

Re: KDE Connect 1.10 released

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Post by Seirdy »

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.

System76, Purism's Librem, ZaReason, Entroware, and ThinkPenguin all make excellent Linux laptops.

Dell's XPS and Inspiron laptops typically have good support as well.

OpenSUSE, KDE Neon, Fedora, Xubuntu, and Manjaro are all solid distros for KDE-centric experience.

Re: KDE Connect 1.10 released

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Post by shreyansh_k »

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 as long as the application handles the standard events regarding play/pause.

Re: KDE Connect 1.10 released

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Post by floatboth »

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?

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