KDE Connect is the one "linux" tool where after showing to my partner what it can do <i>she asked me</i> 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.
From the article:<p><i>What can this do? Using Valent (and KDE Connect), you can:</i><p>- <i>receive Android phone notifications on your desktop and reply to messages</i><p>- <i>sync the clipboard between your Android device and desktop</i><p>- <i>control music playing on your desktop from your Android phone</i><p>- <i>share files between your desktop and Android device, and browse your phone from the desktop</i><p>- <i>send SMS from your desktop</i><p>- <i>execute predefined commands from your Android phone to run on your desktop</i><p>- <i>control your desktop's mouse and keyboard from the Android device</i><p>- <i>browse your Android device filesystem from your desktop wirelessly</i><p>- <i>and more</i>
Perfect!
Works great for an alpha release.<p>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.
The gsconnect extension for gnome also works well if you are on a gnome desktop <a href="https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/1319/gsconnect/" rel="nofollow">https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/1319/gsconnect/</a>
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.<p>Today, why would anyone choose anything except KDE?
Gnome 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.
That's a smartphone UX [1], why he need to have large vertical screen? I don't understand<p>[1] - <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjvr7QS7en7onVmT5Lg0I9W5tlvniTjq-e_9Bhs6SGPE3B023994sdhTpB_O55_cLcOendNsG1rdd5mWPq-4_c2SDUBCLCR8qT9BA0MCSqTSidgV3SPd5YCrMkt9n4zNrHag6wBjn2C-19WK-nRZsl9CQmzVWKG2JM4mZNpY79jBgBVDVUHwx59ewJv/s1048/valent-plugins.png" rel="nofollow">https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj...</a>