KDE Connect is the best! Also why isn't the app called KDE Konnekt 🤣

Better to avoid 3 k's where possible.

The first time it paused my YouTube video inside Firefox when a call came in on my phone, it blew my mind. And then when the call ended, it just casually resumed the video. I love it. That, the clipboard syncing and easy sharing of files between devices make it absolutely awesome to have.

F-Droid is the more valuable app store anyway. I always check there before Google Play.

Happy to stumble across this meme. I didn't know KDE Connect was a thing

Fdroid: am I a joke to you?

And plenty of banking apps consider it as a security threat. 😅

It's one of the reasons my next phone will be Android (with a non-spying custom ROM) instead of an iPhone. Although KDE Connect is already surprisingly powerful on the latter given the limitations of the platform.

KDE Connect is awesome. I've been using it since it first came out (I think it was a GSoC project) with a variety of phones, and am 100% happy with it.

BTW, about the naming, KDE stopped the K thing around KDE 4, with apps such as Cantor.

KDE Connect is so good that there is a user-maintained version that works in GNOME as well.

Oh hehe, I had seen KDE connect here and there but never really tried it myself, how are you using it?? What good things does it bring to your lives? :)

I have a cheap "remote" for my PC, so I rarely use it for media or couch watching, BUT

Take ~50 photos

Get home

Two or three taps

Now they're all on my PC.

I live KDE connect, especially the filesystem share (it uses sshfs in the background).

And yes, it should have been called KDE Konnect 🤣

Google Play

Is that like Aurora Store for google cucks?

It's so good! Installed it once to try it and it never left my laptop. When they added the gyro mouse sensor it got even better - controlling my kodi mediacenter with it is just amazing like that. Also unlocking the screensaver without typing my password, fast even using over VPN etc...its just perfect.

Love that app

I have used KDE Connect a couple of times (when I used Kubuntu), and always uninstall it because it provides nothing of value to me. I rather just reach for my phone that's already on my desk.

I wonder when there will be a Windows client for KDE Connect. I really miss it at work.

KDE connect worked nicely on my iphone for awhile but now I can't get it to work. But yeah it is pretty cool.

everytime i missplace my phone this saves me so much time

Tbh it's kind of a terrible app. I can never keep it connected and the UX is just painful. The most useful feature is transferring files, but when uploading to my PC the dialog box always closes itself before I can see where the file went.

I never could get it to work in KDE Neon.

Neat app! Definitely will try it when I get home.

KDE connect is so good it works better than the windows built-in integration to android.

Does it work with awesome wm?

🤯

Because it wasn't made by King K. Rool

I cannot say I know if this is a function on the Linux version, but one tiny gripe I have with Connect is that I can send my clipboard from my phone to my windows desktop but not vise versa.

I can definitely say, though, that the pretty much only other function I use (file sending) is pretty good when I want/need to send smaller things to my desktop and vice versa.

While I love the idea of KDE Connect, in practice the SMS feature doesn't work reliably at all.

i was struggling to install the thing on linux. although i am still noob on ubuntu :/

I've had to use CX File Explorer here and there for various things. KDE is just a better version of that then?

CX was pretty lightweight last I used it.

I feel like they missed a perfect opportunity, though it may just be the most 2000s thing ever.

It is very nice but the officle app depents a lot on qt what is really anoing. It would be really nice if I could use a gtk version of it on hyprland