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Valent Is a KDE Connect Client for GTK-Based Desktops
- coding123 4y agoDoes this map gnome components to Qt based components?
- reocha 4y agoThe gsconnect extension for gnome also works well if you are on a gnome desktop https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/1319/gsconnect/ https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/1319/gsconnect/
- vanderZwan 4y agoKDE 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.
- shaan7 4y agoIndeed, kudos to the devs for maintaining a Windows version too!
- TuringTest 4y agoBut 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?
- poulpy123 4y agoI don't use it often but it works between my android phone and my windows machine
- IshKebab 4y agoThey should probably rename it.
- chungy 4y agoI disagree. It attracts interest in the KDE project as a whole.
- whalesalad 4y agokonnect
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- zerr 4y agoFrom the name, I was hoping it to be written in Vala.
- jacooper 4y agoGsconnect already exists?
- viraptor 4y agoYes, that's mentioned in the opening sentences along with a reason why it's different.
- gremlinsinc 4y agoWould this run on just i3wm? Or do I need the gnome-i3 session?
- eitland 4y agoI 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?
- encryptluks2 4y agoGTK != Gnome. KDE is extremely bloated and so that is why I avoid it. One KDE package wants to pull in pretty much all the dependencies for a full desktop environment which isn't what I want to do.
- michaelmrose 4y agoIf you find yourself using the term bloated you should in most cases find a new word because it communications only imprecision. It neither uses excessive RAM, nor requires excessive storage, nor runs slowly. Do you mean it has too many features? In the context of the prior comment which was choosing between Gnome and KDE the fact that applications require you to have half of KDE is meaningless as you are if you pick KDE going to install all of KDE already. In the context of installing KDE apps outside of KDE this is fairly overblown. Most people have hundreds of GB to TB of storage available and will install games which require 60GB. At this point in time worrying about KDE installing a few gigs of deps is like worrying about the difference in ram used by Emacs vs Vim.
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- ElectricalUnion 4y ago> KDE is extremely bloated and so that is why I avoid it. I use GNOME myself but GNOME is anything but lean and stable - Alt+F2 r is for me a staple and it doesn't work correctly under Wayland, it's GUI is horribly slow, every extension worsening the problem. I mostly only use GNOME myself because I stopped caring about how slow things are and I'm lazy. > One KDE package wants to pull in pretty much all the dependencies for a full desktop environment which isn't what I want to do. Well, any GNOME thing wants to pull the entire GNOME thing AND systemd. Much worse.
- Operative0198 4y agoGnome doesn't need any more KDE Connect clients. GSConnect is pretty much perfect and most importantly, is integrated into the Quick Settings. What I have always been puzzled by is the near absence of KDE Connect clients for tiling compositors. I would love to one day use KDE Connect in a way that feels native for something like Sway.
- tssva 4y agoThis is not a Gnome client. It is a gtk based client which doesn't require Gnome. It is also from the author of GSConnect.
- Operative0198 4y agoGTK may be a universal GUI tool kit but the description "Gnome Tool Kit" is more appropriate.
- ghqst 4y agoThis works on other desktops besides Gnome
- Operative0198 4y agoPretty sure it works on Gnome as well. One would say that's the main target.
- bacchusracine 4y agoIt's not about Gnome. Other desktops exist that use GTK. Such as Mate, which is still a very decent desktop and show just how far Gnome has fallen in the past decade. Some of us are very happy to have an application which will work for us that doesn't require pulling in Gnome's junk or KDE's junk.
- coolgoose 4y agoWasted the opportunity to call it Konnect :p
- mixmastamyk 4y agoHow about Gonnect?
- Smar 4y agoKonnect is KDEPIM's app bundler ui, that allows using kmail, korganizer and such inside single window.
- JasonFruit 4y agoGiven the state of Linux application naming, we're lucky it's not called GKCellP, so we'd have to find it via 'apt search kdeconnect' every time because we can't remember the name. (I'm looking at you, GKrellM. You too, Liferea. )
- giancarlostoro 4y agoI 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?
- mcsniff 4y agoYou 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.
- rat9988 4y agomy time from (voluntary) responding This one is on you bro.
- giancarlostoro 4y agoI upvoted the thread so I can look at it when I have free time, figured I would ask since when I skimmed I didnt see it.
- vlovich123 4y ago> KDE Connect provides various features to integrate your phone and your computer. It allows you to send files to the other device, control its media playback, send remote input, view its notifications and may things more. It is available for (mobile) Linux, Android, FreeBSD, Windows and macOS.[1] Actually I read your response, then I read the article and still came away confused as to what it does, and I use Linux and KDE as the daily driver for work. So now you’ve wasted my time finding the answer to the question instead of just answering a question likely a lot of people will have. Yes, op could have googled that information themselves. However, the valid criticism of OP is that upon having that question they should have googled the answer and then posted their question with the answer proactively. But “did you even RTFA” is not a helpful meta discussion to have. It’s useful to check the comments first to see whether TFA is even worth reading so having this answered about a more obscure piece of software seems totally valid. And someone did paste the bulleted list of features for Valent itself in this thread too so the rhetoric is just a bit too sanctimonious at chewing out a fellow person without providing value to everyone else reading your comment. [1] https://apps.kde.org/kdeconnect/ https://apps.kde.org/kdeconnect/
- jonas-w 4y agoPerfect! 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 extension. I tried several other alternatives to, but nothing was as good.
- seszett 4y agoI'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).
- jwrallie 4y agoWhat's wrong with surrounding yourself with qt?
- jonas-w 4y agoIt'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 popup or dialog comes up, it stays as a popup or dialog and doesn't take up half of my screen and splits my screen. GTK isn't perfect, but at least it looks good and is more pleasent to use for me.
- 0x6c6f6c 4y agoI believe the term is "floating windows" when they're above the tiling windows.
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- NayamAmarshe 4y agoI use Zorin connect, seems to work pretty well. This one looks cool too though.
- jeroenhd 4y agoAs far as I can tell, Zorin's connect apps are just forks/rebrands of various KDE Connect apps. KDE connect worked flawlessly with a Zorin VM last time I tried it.
- Centigonal 4y agoFrom the article: What can this do? Using Valent (and KDE Connect), you can: - receive Android phone notifications on your desktop and reply to messages - sync the clipboard between your Android device and desktop - control music playing on your desktop from your Android phone - share files between your desktop and Android device, and browse your phone from the desktop - send SMS from your desktop - execute predefined commands from your Android phone to run on your desktop - control your desktop's mouse and keyboard from the Android device - browse your Android device filesystem from your desktop wirelessly - and more
- skykooler 4y agoThere’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.
- JustSomeNobody 4y agoiOS app does also support Samba. I really with the Photos app did. I don't think a "Pro" phone is a Pro phone without that feature.
- harry8 4y agoSignal "note to self" is another way.
- jeroenhd 4y agoIt'll work but that will upload your files to the cloud. If you're on cable internet or even DSL, transferring video files that way will take significantly longer than just using the local connection KDE Connect provides. Of course, there are many local alternatives as well. I just can't see cloud upload features as an alternative to a local network transfer mechanism.
- sneak 4y agoThis ruins your images or videos via terrible recompression that you can't disable.
- Kukumber 4y agoThat's a smartphone UX [1], why he need to have large vertical screen? I don't understand [1] - https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjvr7QS7en7onVmT5Lg0I9W5tlvniTjq-e_9Bhs6SGPE3B023994sdhTpB_O55_cLcOendNsG1rdd5mWPq-4_c2SDUBCLCR8qT9BA0MCSqTSidgV3SPd5YCrMkt9n4zNrHag6wBjn2C-19WK-nRZsl9CQmzVWKG2JM4mZNpY79jBgBVDVUHwx59ewJv/s1048/valent-plugins.png https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj...