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KDE Connect 1.10 released

218 points by codewiz 8y ago

tyfon 8y ago
I've been using this app for several months and it's great. I can see on my desktop when I get messages and reply or see calls and I can control youtube in firefox from my phone and a lot of things in between via the Plasma integration ad-on for firefox. It's all very seamless and it "just works"!
ndnxhs 8y ago
I forgot about this tool ages ago and recently I was wishing I did something that this does perfect.
Jedd 8y ago
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 triggers a phone ring). There's a few features I've not used but are pretty cool to show off to 'other OS users' -- use the phone as a trackpad, triggering 'run commands', etc.
- majewsky 8y ago
  > use the phone as a trackpad I use the remote control feature (not the trackpad part, but the virtual keyboard) extensively when controlling mpv from the couch. Particularly in conjunction with Hacker's Keyboard for special keys like Alt+F4.
  - szemet 8y ago
    I did not hear about KDE connect (maybe because I do not use KDE), but had the exactly same need (control mpv from my couch). I have found this: https://github.com/ndunks/xdotoolweb https://github.com/ndunks/xdotoolweb - I only have one use case so I only run it - using a simple shell script wrapper - together with mpv. It working fine for me, and it does not need a client on the mobile (except a browser), also it is not connected to the KDE ecosystem - if anyone else needs some lightweight solution for the same problem...
    - majewsky 8y ago
      KDE Connect can be used outside of KDE to a certain extent. I used the clipboard sharing on Sway (a Wayland compositor) by starting kdeconnectd manually in a terminal.
- arendtio 8y ago
  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 control the player :-/ (it works on many websites, just not on spotify.com) [1]: Firefox: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/plasma-integration/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/plasma-integr... [1]: Chromium: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/plasma-integration/cimiefiiaegbelhefglklhhakcgmhkai https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/plasma-integration...
  - ClashTheBunny 8y ago
    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 https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/spotify#D-Bus
    - RussianCow 8y ago
      The parent was talking about the website, spotify.com, not the desktop application.
  - oelmekki 8y ago
    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, you can also do that with the spotify app on mobile, used to control spotify on desktop). https://www.spotify.com/fr/download/linux/ https://www.spotify.com/fr/download/linux/
    - Vinnl 8y ago
      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...
- deleted 8y ago
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- sametmax 8y ago
  Yes, it rocks. kitinerary also looks promissing : https://github.com/KDE/kitinerary https://github.com/KDE/kitinerary
- floatboth 8y ago
  > 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?
  - emilsedgh 8y ago
    It does pause and it's not KDE specific at all. There are Gnome parts to it and if I recall it also works in Windows.
- lph 8y ago
  KDE Connect is really fantastic. I recently switched to an iPhone and I miss KDE Connect so much :( Now I have to go through all kinds of ridiculous antics just to copy a file over to my phone, when it used to be so easy.
Aissen 8y ago
I know this is a personal blog, but this is a good time as any to remember a few points when doing a release announcement: - describe the project - link to it See: https://lwn.net/Articles/397441/ https://lwn.net/Articles/397441/ for more guidelines. Here's a link to KDE Connect's description: https://community.kde.org/KDEConnect#What_is_KDE_Connect.3F https://community.kde.org/KDEConnect#What_is_KDE_Connect.3F And Play Store listing: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.kde.kdeconnect_tp&hl=en https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.kde.kdecon...
emilsedgh 8y ago
I miss my Android phone because of KDE Connect. I wish it was available on iOS.
- ekwogefee 8y ago
  You can try Feem WiFi on iOS. Feem can share files and send texts/links between devices without passing through the internet. (Uses LAN) Works on multiple platforms.
  - ekianjo 8y ago
    Thatd not what KDEConnect does at all.
    - Piskvorrr 8y ago
      Well...it's one of KDEConnect's functions. I use that, too, but it's not in my most-used KdeC functionality.
      - ekianjo 8y ago
        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.
        Piskvorrr 8y ago
        My words exactly.
- jamesgeck0 8y ago
  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/ https://www.apple.com/macos/continuity/
yoodenvranx 8y ago
KDE Connect is by far the most useful tool I have discovered in the last few years. If you use Linux and Android you should give it a try! My personal highlights: - shared clipboard (share urls between devices, write long text on PC and then copy it into a messenger, ...) - very easily share files (and whole folders) between devices - music on PC stops when someone is calling
oliloz 8y ago
I know my message won't be well received here but I wish KDE had a leadership with a pair of balls that could say to developers "stop losing your time on these side projects and polish the core desktop and libraries". There are so many pet projects in KDE while the desktop rots in its instability and lack of polish...
- distances 8y ago
  You seem to be having some grave misconceptions about 1. How open source projects work, 2. How polished and stable KDE already is, and 3. How useful piece of software KDE Connect is.
  - oliloz 8y ago
    1) Of course you can't force contributors to do anything but there are ways: tell them repeatedly there are bugs that need fixing, refuse to give them infrastructure to host their pet projects and make it clear they are not official and can't bear the KDE trademark, etc. 2) Don't make me laugh. 3) I don't even own an Android so I could never know. And that's not the point. I know this is just some ranting and nothing will change. KDE went down a hole a long time ago when they lost their funding. But I'm sad to see the things that are happening to it. KDE does not deserve to die like this.
    - purerandomness 8y ago
      KDE just recently received a 300k donation [1]. You seem to remember KDE from the 4.x dark times. Give it a try, it has vastly improved in the last 2 years. [1] https://dot.kde.org/2018/10/15/kde-ev-receives-sizeable-donation-handshake-foundation https://dot.kde.org/2018/10/15/kde-ev-receives-sizeable-dona...
    - shaan7 8y ago
      2) You are the one making people laugh here :P
    - deleted 8y ago
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ailox 8y ago
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-gsconnect/wiki https://github.com/andyholmes/gnome-shell-extension-gsconnec...
- kasbah 8y ago
  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 http://manpages.org/kdeconnect-cli
  - unhammer 8y ago
    still, on my xubuntu system sudo apt install kdeconnect --no-install-recommends wants to install 101 packages :(
    - oAlbe 8y ago
      That's the joy of Qt for you. It shouldn't be so bad though, the whole set of packages is probably a couple hundred of MB, IIRC.
arendtio 8y ago
IMHO, KDE Connect is currently one of the best parts of KDE (together with Dolphin and the Nextcloud integration). I use it for a few years now and while my there are only a few use-cases I use regularly, I am always delighted to have it when something unexpected happens. For example, my phone has its own place on my desk and there are just a few places where I put it when it isn't there. A few weeks ago it wasn't on the desk and not in the other places where I searched for it. Calling it from another phone didn't help because it was late in the night and my phone switches to silent mode for the night automatically. But KDE Connect was the hero of the day, as the 'ping' feature works even if the phone is in silent mode :-) Looking forward to more awesome KDE Connect versions.
- sametmax 8y ago
  The best thing about kde connect is that it's an open protocol so i has been implemented in other desktops (eg: gnome made gconnect and it works with kdeconnect android)
- ekianjo 8y ago
  GNOME also has native nextcloud integration, it is not limited to Doplhin.
thresh 8y ago
KDE Connect is just one of the greatest tools ever. What I really did not expect is that it worked out of the box without any shenanigans to set up. Great job!
toyg 8y ago
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.
- Jedd 8y ago
  I've installed Debian GNU/Linux with KDE on pretty much every computer I've had since the late 1990's, and I've never found a platform that didn't 'do it justice'. VM's won't provide quite the same level of compositor 3D eye-candy, of course, but that's no surprise.
- Jonnax 8y ago
  I guess if you want to guarantee KDE compatibility. KDE support a laptop called the slimbook: https://kde.slimbook.es https://kde.slimbook.es
- swebs 8y ago
  Macbooks are always a sure thing. They don't have perfect support out of the box, there's always some annoyance, but their popularity and uniformity means that there's always a workaround available on the Arch Wiki. You could say the "community support" is top notch.
  - saghm 8y ago
    Is this still true for the newer (i.e. "touchbar") models? From what I've heard, it's very hard to get Linux working well on those, and that even things like the wifi card aren't supported yet
- arusahni 8y ago
  If you get something that's known to work well with Ubuntu, you could then install KDE Neon, which is bleeding edge KDE over Ubuntu LTS. There's also Kubuntu, but the KDE packages aren't as up to date.
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oelmekki 8y ago
Excited to see Connect being actively developed. It's already incredibly useful for me, but I can see it reaching a whole other scale when librem5 phones will be out. Something I wonder more and more often, lately, is if Connect should not be responsible to manage notifications. I've seen that a rewrite of the notification system is on the table [1] to be on par with android's one, and indeed, I would love to have grouping and persistence in my notifications (I currently put the notification widget on my desktop ; it's good enough, but I need to click it to see notifications history and it quickly gets floody, without grouping). The reason I would love to see it being part of Connect is to make it easy to handle shared notifications between several Plasma installs (currently, I spend a long time tweaking the send and receive notifications plugins in Connect, this works great with two devices, but starts getting ugly with three). I can see this being a killing feature, on Plasma mobile. I guess users who don't use Connect wouldn't love that much to have a dependency on it for their notification system, though. But since the discussed rewrite seems mobile focus (IIUC), both systems could co-exist : the classic desktop style notification system currently implemented, and the mobile friendly one in Connect, with an option in system settings to select which one we want to use. [1] https://community.kde.org/Plasma/Notifications#Crazy_Ideas https://community.kde.org/Plasma/Notifications#Crazy_Ideas
jesperht 8y ago
Does anyone have a quick and easy way of getting this running on OSX, or can suggest an alternative? Currently trying to get this to work via Craft (https://community.kde.org/Craft https://community.kde.org/Craft) and hoping for the best meanwhile
- bruwozniak 8y ago
  Currently I'm using Soduto https://soduto.com/ https://soduto.com/ and it's working ok, although only basic functionality is covered.
curiousgal 8y ago
Anyone got this working on Arch with i3?
- all2 8y ago
  Glad to know I'm not the only one here running that combo. Unfortunately, my phone is from the dark ages so I won't be able to verify that it works.
- 0xb100db1ade 8y ago
  I have gotten it to work on NixOS with it. I've read that it also works with Arch. Make sure kdeconnectd is running, that your appindicator tray bar is working, and that your devices are on the same network
debt 8y ago
“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”
- akerro 8y ago
  Does it also pause youtube (or any other in browser multimedia) or other platforms?
  - shreyansh_k 8y ago
    It does as long as the application handles the standard events regarding play/pause.
  - emilsedgh 8y ago
    It does if you have plasma-browser-integration extension on your browser.
- apexalpha 8y ago
  This pauses the video or music on your _computer_ when you receive a call on your phone.
ben_utzer 8y ago
what is kde connect? https://community.kde.org/KDEConnect#What_is_KDE_Connect.3F https://community.kde.org/KDEConnect#What_is_KDE_Connect.3F
wink 8y ago
Meh, first time I heard about this and of course I wanted to try it. But (as I could have imagined) it says it will only discover other devices on the same local network - but my mobile is in my work's guest network, whereas my laptop is in the internal network. So yeah, this won't fly unless I can think of some VPN trickery :(

218 points by codewiz 8y ago

I've been using this app for several months and it's great. I can see on my desktop when I get messages and reply or see calls and I can control youtube in firefox from my phone and a lot of things in between via the Plasma integration ad-on for firefox. It's all very seamless and it "just works"!

ndnxhs 8y ago

I forgot about this tool ages ago and recently I was wishing I did something that this does perfect.

Jedd 8y ago

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 triggers a phone ring). There's a few features I've not used but are pretty cool to show off to 'other OS users' -- use the phone as a trackpad, triggering 'run commands', etc.

majewsky 8y ago
> use the phone as a trackpad I use the remote control feature (not the trackpad part, but the virtual keyboard) extensively when controlling mpv from the couch. Particularly in conjunction with Hacker's Keyboard for special keys like Alt+F4.
- szemet 8y ago
  I did not hear about KDE connect (maybe because I do not use KDE), but had the exactly same need (control mpv from my couch). I have found this: https://github.com/ndunks/xdotoolweb https://github.com/ndunks/xdotoolweb - I only have one use case so I only run it - using a simple shell script wrapper - together with mpv. It working fine for me, and it does not need a client on the mobile (except a browser), also it is not connected to the KDE ecosystem - if anyone else needs some lightweight solution for the same problem...
  - majewsky 8y ago
    KDE Connect can be used outside of KDE to a certain extent. I used the clipboard sharing on Sway (a Wayland compositor) by starting kdeconnectd manually in a terminal.
arendtio 8y ago
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 control the player :-/ (it works on many websites, just not on spotify.com) [1]: Firefox: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/plasma-integration/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/plasma-integr... [1]: Chromium: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/plasma-integration/cimiefiiaegbelhefglklhhakcgmhkai https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/plasma-integration...
- ClashTheBunny 8y ago
  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 https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/spotify#D-Bus
  - RussianCow 8y ago
    The parent was talking about the website, spotify.com, not the desktop application.
- oelmekki 8y ago
  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, you can also do that with the spotify app on mobile, used to control spotify on desktop). https://www.spotify.com/fr/download/linux/ https://www.spotify.com/fr/download/linux/
  - Vinnl 8y ago
    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...
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sametmax 8y ago
Yes, it rocks. kitinerary also looks promissing : https://github.com/KDE/kitinerary https://github.com/KDE/kitinerary
floatboth 8y ago
> 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?
- emilsedgh 8y ago
  It does pause and it's not KDE specific at all. There are Gnome parts to it and if I recall it also works in Windows.
lph 8y ago
KDE Connect is really fantastic. I recently switched to an iPhone and I miss KDE Connect so much :( Now I have to go through all kinds of ridiculous antics just to copy a file over to my phone, when it used to be so easy.

Aissen 8y ago

I know this is a personal blog, but this is a good time as any to remember a few points when doing a release announcement: - describe the project - link to it See: https://lwn.net/Articles/397441/ https://lwn.net/Articles/397441/ for more guidelines. Here's a link to KDE Connect's description: https://community.kde.org/KDEConnect#What_is_KDE_Connect.3F https://community.kde.org/KDEConnect#What_is_KDE_Connect.3F And Play Store listing: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.kde.kdeconnect_tp&hl=en https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.kde.kdecon...

emilsedgh 8y ago

I miss my Android phone because of KDE Connect. I wish it was available on iOS.

ekwogefee 8y ago
You can try Feem WiFi on iOS. Feem can share files and send texts/links between devices without passing through the internet. (Uses LAN) Works on multiple platforms.
- ekianjo 8y ago
  Thatd not what KDEConnect does at all.
  - Piskvorrr 8y ago
    Well...it's one of KDEConnect's functions. I use that, too, but it's not in my most-used KdeC functionality.
    - ekianjo 8y ago
      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.
      - Piskvorrr 8y ago
        My words exactly.
jamesgeck0 8y ago
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/ https://www.apple.com/macos/continuity/

yoodenvranx 8y ago

KDE Connect is by far the most useful tool I have discovered in the last few years. If you use Linux and Android you should give it a try! My personal highlights: - shared clipboard (share urls between devices, write long text on PC and then copy it into a messenger, ...) - very easily share files (and whole folders) between devices - music on PC stops when someone is calling

oliloz 8y ago

I know my message won't be well received here but I wish KDE had a leadership with a pair of balls that could say to developers "stop losing your time on these side projects and polish the core desktop and libraries". There are so many pet projects in KDE while the desktop rots in its instability and lack of polish...

distances 8y ago
You seem to be having some grave misconceptions about 1. How open source projects work, 2. How polished and stable KDE already is, and 3. How useful piece of software KDE Connect is.
- oliloz 8y ago
  1) Of course you can't force contributors to do anything but there are ways: tell them repeatedly there are bugs that need fixing, refuse to give them infrastructure to host their pet projects and make it clear they are not official and can't bear the KDE trademark, etc. 2) Don't make me laugh. 3) I don't even own an Android so I could never know. And that's not the point. I know this is just some ranting and nothing will change. KDE went down a hole a long time ago when they lost their funding. But I'm sad to see the things that are happening to it. KDE does not deserve to die like this.
  - purerandomness 8y ago
    KDE just recently received a 300k donation [1]. You seem to remember KDE from the 4.x dark times. Give it a try, it has vastly improved in the last 2 years. [1] https://dot.kde.org/2018/10/15/kde-ev-receives-sizeable-donation-handshake-foundation https://dot.kde.org/2018/10/15/kde-ev-receives-sizeable-dona...
  - shaan7 8y ago
    2) You are the one making people laugh here :P
  - deleted 8y ago
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ailox 8y ago

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-gsconnect/wiki https://github.com/andyholmes/gnome-shell-extension-gsconnec...

kasbah 8y ago
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 http://manpages.org/kdeconnect-cli
- unhammer 8y ago
  still, on my xubuntu system sudo apt install kdeconnect --no-install-recommends wants to install 101 packages :(
  - oAlbe 8y ago
    That's the joy of Qt for you. It shouldn't be so bad though, the whole set of packages is probably a couple hundred of MB, IIRC.

arendtio 8y ago

IMHO, KDE Connect is currently one of the best parts of KDE (together with Dolphin and the Nextcloud integration). I use it for a few years now and while my there are only a few use-cases I use regularly, I am always delighted to have it when something unexpected happens. For example, my phone has its own place on my desk and there are just a few places where I put it when it isn't there. A few weeks ago it wasn't on the desk and not in the other places where I searched for it. Calling it from another phone didn't help because it was late in the night and my phone switches to silent mode for the night automatically. But KDE Connect was the hero of the day, as the 'ping' feature works even if the phone is in silent mode :-) Looking forward to more awesome KDE Connect versions.

sametmax 8y ago
The best thing about kde connect is that it's an open protocol so i has been implemented in other desktops (eg: gnome made gconnect and it works with kdeconnect android)
ekianjo 8y ago
GNOME also has native nextcloud integration, it is not limited to Doplhin.

thresh 8y ago

KDE Connect is just one of the greatest tools ever. What I really did not expect is that it worked out of the box without any shenanigans to set up. Great job!

toyg 8y ago

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.

Jedd 8y ago
I've installed Debian GNU/Linux with KDE on pretty much every computer I've had since the late 1990's, and I've never found a platform that didn't 'do it justice'. VM's won't provide quite the same level of compositor 3D eye-candy, of course, but that's no surprise.
Jonnax 8y ago
I guess if you want to guarantee KDE compatibility. KDE support a laptop called the slimbook: https://kde.slimbook.es https://kde.slimbook.es
swebs 8y ago
Macbooks are always a sure thing. They don't have perfect support out of the box, there's always some annoyance, but their popularity and uniformity means that there's always a workaround available on the Arch Wiki. You could say the "community support" is top notch.
- saghm 8y ago
  Is this still true for the newer (i.e. "touchbar") models? From what I've heard, it's very hard to get Linux working well on those, and that even things like the wifi card aren't supported yet
arusahni 8y ago
If you get something that's known to work well with Ubuntu, you could then install KDE Neon, which is bleeding edge KDE over Ubuntu LTS. There's also Kubuntu, but the KDE packages aren't as up to date.
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oelmekki 8y ago

Excited to see Connect being actively developed. It's already incredibly useful for me, but I can see it reaching a whole other scale when librem5 phones will be out. Something I wonder more and more often, lately, is if Connect should not be responsible to manage notifications. I've seen that a rewrite of the notification system is on the table [1] to be on par with android's one, and indeed, I would love to have grouping and persistence in my notifications (I currently put the notification widget on my desktop ; it's good enough, but I need to click it to see notifications history and it quickly gets floody, without grouping). The reason I would love to see it being part of Connect is to make it easy to handle shared notifications between several Plasma installs (currently, I spend a long time tweaking the send and receive notifications plugins in Connect, this works great with two devices, but starts getting ugly with three). I can see this being a killing feature, on Plasma mobile. I guess users who don't use Connect wouldn't love that much to have a dependency on it for their notification system, though. But since the discussed rewrite seems mobile focus (IIUC), both systems could co-exist : the classic desktop style notification system currently implemented, and the mobile friendly one in Connect, with an option in system settings to select which one we want to use. [1] https://community.kde.org/Plasma/Notifications#Crazy_Ideas https://community.kde.org/Plasma/Notifications#Crazy_Ideas

jesperht 8y ago

Does anyone have a quick and easy way of getting this running on OSX, or can suggest an alternative? Currently trying to get this to work via Craft (https://community.kde.org/Craft https://community.kde.org/Craft) and hoping for the best meanwhile

bruwozniak 8y ago
Currently I'm using Soduto https://soduto.com/ https://soduto.com/ and it's working ok, although only basic functionality is covered.

curiousgal 8y ago

Anyone got this working on Arch with i3?

all2 8y ago
Glad to know I'm not the only one here running that combo. Unfortunately, my phone is from the dark ages so I won't be able to verify that it works.
0xb100db1ade 8y ago
I have gotten it to work on NixOS with it. I've read that it also works with Arch. Make sure kdeconnectd is running, that your appindicator tray bar is working, and that your devices are on the same network

debt 8y ago

“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”

akerro 8y ago
Does it also pause youtube (or any other in browser multimedia) or other platforms?
- shreyansh_k 8y ago
  It does as long as the application handles the standard events regarding play/pause.
- emilsedgh 8y ago
  It does if you have plasma-browser-integration extension on your browser.
apexalpha 8y ago
This pauses the video or music on your _computer_ when you receive a call on your phone.

ben_utzer 8y ago

what is kde connect? https://community.kde.org/KDEConnect#What_is_KDE_Connect.3F https://community.kde.org/KDEConnect#What_is_KDE_Connect.3F

wink 8y ago

Meh, first time I heard about this and of course I wanted to try it. But (as I could have imagined) it says it will only discover other devices on the same local network - but my mobile is in my work's guest network, whereas my laptop is in the internal network. So yeah, this won't fly unless I can think of some VPN trickery :(