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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

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Post by 0x6c6f6c »

jonas-w wrote: post #65
jwrallie wrote: post #57

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What's wrong with surrounding yourself with qt?

It's just an opinion, it's subjective: For example the only qt application i use is wireshark, it looks to me like windows 7, hijacks my input several times when i want to type somewhere else, hovering over menu items at the top is always off for me,... And GTK seems to work better for me with tiling window managers, as popups are by default not windows (idk what they are), this way if I click on something and a popu…

I believe the term is "floating windows" when they're above the tiling windows.

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

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Post by poulpy123 »

TuringTest wrote: post #38
shaan7 wrote: post #25

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

But does it work on Windows? I've only been able to connect it right after a fresh install, but after I reboot it doesn't see the phone anymore. Is your experience better?

I don't use it often but it works between my android phone and my windows machine

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

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Post by eitland »

heinrich5991 wrote: post #52
eitland wrote: post #49

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WhatsApp has a documented history of all kinds of shadyness from uploading unencrypted (yes, unencrypted) backups to Google under an agreement that let Google rummage through them(!) to their "send the data in a sidechannel directly to Facebook for analysis while also sending it end-to-end-encrypted to the recipient". I really can't understand why you bright folks here on HN falls for WhatsApps marketing. E2E means a…

> WhatsApp has a documented history of all kinds of shadyness from uploading unencrypted (yes, unencrypted) backups to Google under an agreement that let Google rummage through them(!) to their "send the data in a sidechannel directly to Facebook for analysis while also sending it end-to-end-encrypted to the recipient". I don't have that backup enabled. Does that mean that WhatsApp is secure for me with everyone who…

> I don't have that backup enabled. Does that mean that WhatsApp is secure for me with everyone who also has that disabled?

As long as no one of them enables it, probably.

I don't know if this agreement is in place any longer, but you should be able to find references to it using a search engine.

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

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Post by dmytrish »

eitland wrote: post #42

I could understand Gnome as an ideological hack back when KDE wasn't completely open source or when Ubuntu pushed beautiful and polished versions of Gnome 2. And when KDE was on version 4. Today, why would anyone choose anything except KDE?

I use KDE because I like its relatively polished design and philosophy of flexibility and empowering power users. I can and I do wrestle things that I don't like into a shape I like.

I still have to put up with many, many downsides around its stability, bugs, resource consumption, being written in C++ and builds being a nontrivial exercise.

I can sympathize with those for whom KDE does not suit well.

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

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Post by heinrich5991 »

eitland wrote: post #74
heinrich5991 wrote: post #52

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> WhatsApp has a documented history of all kinds of shadyness from uploading unencrypted (yes, unencrypted) backups to Google under an agreement that let Google rummage through them(!) to their "send the data in a sidechannel directly to Facebook for analysis while also sending it end-to-end-encrypted to the recipient". I don't have that backup enabled. Does that mean that WhatsApp is secure for me with everyone who…

> I don't have that backup enabled. Does that mean that WhatsApp is secure for me with everyone who also has that disabled? As long as no one of them enables it, probably. I don't know if this agreement is in place any longer, but you should be able to find references to it using a search engine.

> I don't know if this agreement is in place any longer, but you should be able to find references to it using a search engine.

I've not found it quickly. I found this article which doesn't mention it: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2016/10/where-whatsapp-went-wr.... Since you made the claim, I'd usually ask you to substantiate it.

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

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Post by jonas-w »

0x6c6f6c wrote: post #71
jonas-w wrote: post #65

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's just an opinion, it's subjective: For example the only qt application i use is wireshark, it looks to me like windows 7, hijacks my input several times when i want to type somewhere else, hovering over menu items at the top is always off for me,... And GTK seems to work better for me with tiling window managers, as popups are by default not windows (idk what they are), this way if I click on something and a popu…

I believe the term is "floating windows" when they're above the tiling windows.

Floating windows would be something i need to specifically whitelist in my twm config, thats how i could achieve it with qt, but the gtk popups aren't treated like normal windows from the beginning

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

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Post by jonas-w »

tssva wrote: post #22
reocha wrote: post #18

The gsconnect extension for gnome also works well if you are on a gnome desktop https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/1319/gsconnect/

This is from the same author.

Valent is from Andy Holmes.

GSConnect is from Daniel Landau.

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

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Post by iudqnolq »

vanderZwan wrote: post #20

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.

If it wasn't buggy over tailscale it'd be perfect.

I was travelling for a month and decided to put my sim card in a cheap android phone and connect to it remotely to keep getting SMS 2FA rather than getting roaming. After about two weeks KDE connect over tailscale said the phone didn't exist, so I was glad I'd set up google's remote sms as a backup. (I verified through tailscale it was still connected).

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

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Post by iudqnolq »

harry8 wrote: post #13
skykooler wrote: post #10

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There’s also an iOS client, though it doesn’t have all features implemented due to limitations in Apple’s APIs. However it’s still the most convenient way to transfer files between an iPhone and a Windows or Linux computer.

Signal "note to self" is another way.

If it's not private file.io gives you a handy qr code and supports <2gb
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