KDE

For those who don't know KDE Connect yet, KDE Connect is such a beautiful software and app with many useful features and possibilities. I strongly recommend it if you have two or more devices that you need to use interchangeably. I use it to inter-connect both of my laptops (both Arch, by the way) with both of my Android smartphones. It allows me, for example, to monitor battery charging of one smartphone through the other smartphone (so I can keep it laying still, steadily charging, without disturbing the charging process, as the current state of my USB cable is not as good). Clipboard sharing is something I became so accustomed to use that when KDE Connect isn't connected for some reason (for example, when the phone is connected through mobile network, therefore, not being on the same LAN network as my laptops), the lack of a unified clipboard feels strange to me.

@[email protected] @[email protected] Not a KDE user, but I can confess that #GSConnect works perfectly on @gnome! With KDE Connect on my Android phone of course. 😉

P.S. Don't forget to open some ports on your PC:

sudo ufw allow 1714:1764/udp
sudo ufw allow 1714:1764/tcp
sudo ufw reload

@kde @kde KDE Connect is capable of so much more, not just simple file sharing 😎

@[email protected] @[email protected] Wait, does KDE Connect allow you to share files with your iPhone now? Is it on the App Store?

@[email protected] @[email protected] I 'member when Microsoft wanted to take Ubuntu to court about Convergence, a thing that was just a twinkle in MS's eye but already working on Ubuntu phones.

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Some more KDE Connect goodness: during your presentations, use KDE Connect to move through your slides.

Or put your finger on the "Pointer", point your phone at the screen and a flaming circular pointer will appear. Higlight what you need by moving your phone.

https://kdeconnect.kde.org/

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I am very pleased with the kde on my @UniversalBlue #fedoraatomic #Kinoite laptop.

@[email protected] @[email protected] This blog post is about iPhone support but Microsoft has had this in Windows for a couple years now, especially in cooperation with Samsung. The Apple/Samsung #Sidecar feature in which you can use your computer keyboard to write on your phone or to drag & drop files is still not present in #KDEConnect (there is a input module in the plasmoid setting but I have never seen a button to actually use this; is this Wayland-only?).

Which reminds me - how do I get KDE Connect to allow transferring files on Windows? (Stuck there for technical reasons in the meanwhile, over Linux it works like magic)

@[email protected] @[email protected] I am really lucky to view and reply to my SMS from my Android phone using KDE Connect and also to control the media with it.

My only issue comes with basic MTP support - for for reliable file transfer I need to use tools like "Android_File_Transfer" or run a Windows WM where I could work with my phone similarly to a flash drive. That is quite sad - not sure what is the reason for that poor implementation of MTP in linux...

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Hahahaha... 😂😂
🙈🙈

You mean: this is new to them???
Seriously ... This is a joke on the windows.com website.

It isn't??🫣

(I don't use Windows for more than 10 years ..)