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>>106809324

>>106809324
How is this any useful?
Im seriously asking

>>106809324
Why would I use this over syncthing

>>106809402
i use both. they do different things. like completely different things. idk what you're on about

>>106809394
Can basically use the pc as a tv and the phone as a remote controller

>>106809414
I checked, all the value I see is in being able to share files through your local network, so there's still no good reason to use it instead of syncthing

>>106809434
Please be bait thats too good to be true

>>106809499
sounds like you didn't actually check then

>>106809324
whatever firmware MRI's use
it turned out to be benign but it was causing huge discomfort

>>106809434
>>106809699
Thats not new thats been a thing since smartphones (unified remote)

>>106809805
>unified remote
not open sauce and not maintained but yea

>>106809394
mouse&keyboard on your phone, some media conntroll (play-pause with vlc and firefox from my testing) and you can set custom commands
the biggest problem with it is kde

>>106809750
>Notifications
Who even uses them on pc?
>Remote control
I have a keyboard, if I wanted to have a wireless one I could just upgrade
>Some other bs
Who cares
>Sharing files
The single reasonable use case

>>106809828
you don't have to have kde running on anything. kde connect works on all platforms. people run it without having any linux device in the mix at all

>>106809324
>software
>made your life better
I dont feel like this anymore

>>106809852
wait seriously, i can throw out this pile of trash for xfeces ?

>>106809862
I use it for windows so I would think so

>>106809845
>it's not relevant to me so it's not relevant to anyone
hard to argue with that mentality, but alright. i'm not going to describe usecases to you like you're mr. ebussy from the gnome team. you can continue not using kde connect lol

>>106809862
yeah run whatever the fuck you want my man/woman/person/thing, kde connect runs on any linux de, it even runs on windows and macos

>>106809876
It's just irrelevant in general. The vast majority of this seems to be mental retardation from being focused too much on phone UX

>>106809324
Everything I use. From Ubuntu and Winhoes, to all the 3rd-party stuff I use to replace Microsoft's bloatware apps and neat freeware stuff I use on either like OBS and GIMP.

>>106809788
Put down your fork fat niga

it's one of the biggest advantages Linux has over Windows and arguably it's more complete than Apple's solution - even though not as bulletproof
mindboggling that Gnome hasn't adopted it out of pure spite for KDE

>>106809394
I love using it as a quick m+kb solution if the pc is in the living room.

>>106809324
literally can't find my phone half the time fuck this piece of shit
localsend works for me though

>>106811163
I love seeing gnome slowly decline and fail. It's truly comfy to watch software I've hated for so long gradually getting replaced by XFCE or KDE as the default DE for new installs. If the Gnome devs weren't such faggots we could actually have had a linux DE for everyone.

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>>106811163
https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/1319/gsconnect/

>>106809324
this is the only good reason to buy apple hardware, and kde connect is a very poor imitation

>>106811779
t. bought a new iPad to be able to type on it with his Macbook Pro

>>106809324
just wish it would actually exit when I hit exit on the hidden icon...instead every time I have to open up task manager, type k, and end task on kdeconnectd

>>106809324
Kinda hate to admit it but kde connect is unfortunately really good even in Windows.

>>106811779
Try Localsend. It works the same as muh Airdrop, even from a Linux machine to my iPhone and vice versa. Adds to Photos app and everything

>>106809394
For me:
>clipboard sync
Probably the feature I use the most. It makes it so easy to just copy something on one device and paste it on the other. Well, if you're copying on PC anyway, annoying you have to execute a command to send the phone clipboard instead of it happening automatically, I have a button in my notification shade for it.
>file sharing
I used to use syncthing for this but I prefer kdeconnect because I don't have to move a file to share it, I just hit share and then select the device I want to send it to. Since I also use dolphin as my file manager I can send shit just by right clicking on it and selecting the option from the menu. I still use syncthing, but for syncing larger directories that I wanna keep synced (mostly shit posting images), for sharing a single file I use kdeconnect.
>notifications
Saves me the trouble of picking up my phone every time I get some ping on it, or gives me a heads up to charge my phone. Also has a nice feature where it can pause any currently playing media on both devices when you get a call. By default it unpauses after you hang up but I changed that because I found it annoying.
>filesystem browsing
Don't use it as often as file sharing but it can still be useful sometimes, mainly held back by not being quite snappy enough
>find my phone
Don't have to use this one often either but it's useful when I do.

>>106811971
Why do you hate to admit it?

>>106812104
/thread

Imagemagick, FFmpeg, Bulk Rename Utility.
Krita is pretty decent too (I use it purely for animation and nothing else), but they still got a few bugs/UX issues to iron out

syncthing, obsidian and keepassxc

The holy trinity of keeping all the important info on your phone and PCs

localsend
ffmpeg
simplewall/binisoft firewall
kdenlive
gimp
keepassxc
any task app + CalDAV
unironically ollama + any good 32B model
truecrypt
7-zip
yt-dlp

>>106811163
whats up with all the people in this thread praising but not knowing kde connect is just an app made by the kde people? it runs on gnome and windows just fine, do you guys even use it?

>>106809394
>clipboard sync
>file sharing
>link sharing
>wireless file browsing
>notification sharing
>remote mouse+keyboard
>remote display
>"find my phone"
>remotely execute scripts from your phone
It's pretty useful even if you only need 2 or 3 of these. It also works PC<->PC and phone<->phone. It's cross platform (Linux, Android, Windows, iOS).

Is kdeconnect worth it for remote viewing games?

I use moonlight right now to stream games from my desktop onto to my laptop remotely. Would kdeconnect be better or add any benefits to this?

>>106809324
*krashes across all your devices*

>>106815272
Kde connect can't do display mirroring, just use moonlight what's your problem with it?

>>106815467
Moonlight crashes randomly sometimes because there is a resolution mismatch between server and client

>>106809324
Still would've preferred USB transfers, but it works great for when I need to transfer a couple of files from my iPhone to my PCs running Linux or Windows

>>106815467
>Kde connect can't do display mirroring
Apparently it does if one computer has a VNC client and the other has Krfb or similar.
https://invent.kde.org/network/kdeconnect-kde/-/tree/master/plugins/virtualmonitor

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>>106809699
It's true. This is what appears when I run the app and it's connected to the PC. I can turn the smartphone into keyboard+mouse or just multimedia control to pause/play/volume media playing while PC and smartphone are on the same network just by pressing the respective buttons.

>>106809828
>with vlc and firefox
It should work with anything implementing MPRIS. There is an mpv plugin to add that functionality.

>>106809324
I love it. Literally use it every single day.
I put a "timer" custom command on it that delays 1 hour then puts the PC to sleep. Comfy nights all nights.

qutebrowser
Finally gave me freedom for internet browsing
additionally: lynx
I use it as an ad-hoc reader mode for shittily designed websites and to tune down visual noise

Some websites are unusable with this setup due to ads, but I find that I should've not used the sites in the first place (jeet coding tutorials, raw youtube, reddit)

>>106815571
did you try the sunshine fork? its made for that issue
https://github.com/ClassicOldSong/Apollo

>>106817677
>qutebrowser
would be amazing if it had addons, would be very tempting to support the blink monopoly

>>106809394
using it for clipboard sharing on 2 computers using deskflow + kde connect. Just wayland things...

>>106809394
For techlets yes

Vim, unironically.

>>106812757
>annoying you have to execute a command to send the phone clipboard
It can be automatic, but you have to run this through adb

adb shell pm grant org.kde.kdeconnect_tp android.permission.READ_LOGS;
adb shell appops set org.kde.kdeconnect_tp SYSTEM_ALERT_WINDOW allow;
adb shell am force-stop org.kde.kdeconnect_tp;

If you reboot your phone it will ask you to give permissions again, but that's better than manually syncing

>>106820067
Thanks, didn't know about that.
Also good to know wireless adb is still as shit as it was last time I tried it.