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KDE Connect: Enabling communication between all your devices
Author : snthd
Score : 364 points
Date : 2025-10-12 12:04 UTC (9 days ago)
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| evanjrowley wrote:
| There's official support for Windows. No support for macOS yet,
| but there is a working implementation for it. I had no idea I'd
| be able to use KDE Connect with those operating systems.
| p_l wrote:
| The protocol is open so you can build software for other
| systems that uses it, whether it's GNOME or macOS
| DigitallyFidget wrote:
| There is a Windows build for it. I don't know if it's official
| or not, but there is a Windows build and it does work well.
| karmakaze wrote:
| I was wondering what "the network" here means:
|
| > To achieve this, KDE Connect: implements a
| secure communication protocol over the network, and allows any
| developer to create plugins on top of it. Has a component
| that you install on your desktop. Has a KDE Connect
| client app you run on your phone.
|
| Looking further it is only for the local network (with ways to
| extend it e.g. VPNs).
| creatonez wrote:
| It has bluetooth support now as well
| m463 wrote:
| it also talks about using a VPN and what ports to open in a
| firewall.
|
| I don't know how it handles the harder part, the "device on
| internet" talks to "device in my house"
|
| most phones and apps use this "harder part" to interpose
| their corporate server for more than TURN/STUN and continue
| to "collect all the data" or "insert a subscription"
| Oxodao wrote:
| Did you get this to work with wireguard though?
|
| As long as my phone is connected to wireguard KDEConnect
| does NOT see any other computer, apparently because it wont
| forward ICMP broadcast according to the internet.
|
| I would really like to have a solution to this issue but
| since its baked in WG i don't think this is possible
| m463 wrote:
| Actually, I mean the whole "find and talk to my home
| server over the internet"
|
| Generally it does this by having a DNS record for your
| home server, or having some other well-known server give
| out its address or relay the packets.
| jeroenhd wrote:
| KDE Connect leverages mDNS on the network (non-Bluetooth)
| side, which relies on broadcasts. That means it'll break
| across networks without a VPN of some kind. For some VPNs
| (Wireguard, OpenVPN in TUN mode) that also means
| connectivity is impossible.
|
| You can, if you want, open ports and configure KDE
| connect to reach out across the internet (practically
| only feasible with one device behind your router on IPv4,
| any on IPv6), but because it doesn't use "real" DNS, you
| can't just enter a DDNS hostname, you have to specify the
| full IP address.
| jeroenhd wrote:
| WireGuard doesn't do any forwarding out of the box, you
| need to set up your iptables/nftables to get all of that
| working. If you follow the WG quick-start guides, they
| often work by masquerading traffic, making VPN clients
| act the same way a bunch of computers behind a NAT router
| would.
|
| You'll need to set up all other kinds of routing as well
| for cross-network discovery to work. WireGuard doesn't do
| broadcasting in general (it's a point-to-point protocol
| after all) so you'll need to wrap broadcasting protocols
| manually.
|
| Other VPNs go more low-level (at least in TAP mode),
| mirroring an ethernet network with all the broadcasting
| and low-level protocols you can think of. In theory you
| could do that in WireGuard (running L2TP over a WireGuard
| link) but many phones won't support that, and it'd
| probably be just as easy to set up an OpenVPN/IPSec+L2TP
| VPN in that case.
|
| I'm not sure if it's a good idea, though. I imagine most
| people wouldn't want a printer publishing its mDNS
| hostname to wake the 5G radio on their phone, or the
| battery level of their laptop in the case of KDE connect.
| 1oooqooq wrote:
| mdns is a really awful protocol. it was already bad in
| the era it was born, being just an evolution of Microsoft
| NetBIOS out something. today in the age of wifi and
| overlay networks, i just consider it information leak
| with zero benefits.
|
| so, the rfc have a section on how the mdns server have to
| evolve to handle multiple interfaces and own that. but in
| reality nobody gives a damn because the maintainer
| (redhat ibm) is it in the context it was invented (work
| networks on the 00s), so everyone (like many comments
| below) just work around in all the wrong ways making
| other things more complicated.
|
| "just do these hundreds changed on wireguard, your
| firewall, install this reverse proxy... now your service
| that only exists to route things automatically can look
| like it works" heh.
| ValdikSS wrote:
| >As long as my phone is connected to wireguard KDEConnect
| does NOT see any other computer, apparently because it
| wont forward ICMP broadcast according to the internet.
|
| It's a bug in the application.
|
| https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=507954 /
| https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=507972
| seszett wrote:
| > _the "device on internet" talks to "device in my house"_
|
| It doesn't handle it well other than with bluetooth or
| awkward port forwarding and manual entering of IPs.
|
| I don't see it as a problem though, I don't think I have
| needed a single time over my many years of use to share my
| clipboard with, or control the media player or mouse and
| keyboard, of a device that was not in the same room or on
| the same network as me.
| blooalien wrote:
| > Has a component that you install on your desktop.
|
| This is only if you use Windows (or MacOS, as there's also a
| KDE Connect compatible Mac app out there somewhere IIRC). If
| you're on KDE Desktop Linux, you're already good-to-go, as it's
| a pre-installed component of a typical KDE environment. :)
| 1oooqooq wrote:
| not true for all distros. and this kind of thinking is really
| bad imo for network services.
| sphars wrote:
| > enables all your devices to communicate with each other
|
| I've tried using KDE connect on two desktops (my laptop running
| Fedora KDE and my desktop running Nobara, also Fedora KDE) and
| this statement appears false. It was extremely buggy connecting
| them, and when they did "see" each other, none of the
| functionality I expected worked. Wanted to use the shared
| clipboard feature but it didn't work, nor did anything else.
|
| This was early this year, maybe it's gotten better since?
|
| KDE Connect is really for mobile (Android) devices and a
| computer, not computer to computer, IME
| garciansmith wrote:
| Works well for sending things between my laptop (Kubuntu) and
| Steam Deck.
| wasmitnetzen wrote:
| It works fine for me, and has been for at least 2 years,
| between any subset of 2 laptops (KDE, WiFi), one desktop (KDE,
| LAN), and two Androids (WiFi). They're all on the same subnet
| though.
| Joel_Mckay wrote:
| SSH File sync applications are reliable...
|
| Android: "Transfer Files To Computer, PC" ( Michal Bukacek
| includes GPL git URI, YMMV as we still need to audit it for
| traffic)
|
| https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=cz.bukacek.fil...
|
| iPhone: PhotoSync is free to transfer movies and low-resolution
| images
|
| https://apps.apple.com/us/app/photosync-transfer-photos/id41...
|
| MacOS:
|
| https://github.com/macfuse/macfuse/releases
|
| Windows 11: sshfs is slow, but allows user account constrained
| access to remote shares
|
| winget install -h -e --id "WinFsp.WinFsp"
|
| winget install -h -e --id "SSHFS-Win.SSHFS-Win"
|
| https://github.com/winfsp/sshfs-win
|
| Windows 11 system tray sshfs link manager:
|
| https://github.com/evsar3/sshfs-win-manager
|
| Windows 11: Local OpenSSH service setup
|
| https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/administrat...
|
| If your home router is dynamic DNS only, the ISP will usually
| still support ports >1000:
|
| https://www.noip.com/
|
| Or DIY with your own DNS solution with cloudflare:
|
| https://linuxconfig.org/automate-dynamic-ip-updates-for-your...
|
| Also tried KDE connect a few years back, but didn't like the
| idea of giving a buggy phone access to shoulder-surf root
| accounts. Transferring stuff out of a VM with a local samba
| instance also works, but samba should also be containerized.
|
| Best regards, =3
| brooke2k wrote:
| I use this between my Arch/KDE desktop + Samsung Galaxy S21, and
| it works beautifully.
| tmtvl wrote:
| Same, but a Sony Xperia XZ2 Compact (the tiniest phone I could
| buy with decent LineageOS support). Just a shame it isn't
| supported on Ubuntu Touch.
| Kim_Bruning wrote:
| This is a killer app. There have been times when I asked someone
| "why can't you just send me a screenshot on signal" or "Oh, can't
| you copy the URL to your desktop?"... only to realize that the
| poor fellow didn't have KDE connect (yet).
|
| It's not perfect, but it does things I haven't found anywhere
| else, makes your phone and laptop and pc.
|
| It might help that I'm actually running KDE everywhere, of
| course.
| munchlax wrote:
| > KDE everywhere
|
| Not to be confused with Qt Everywhere
| maqnius wrote:
| I have a all my messengers running on my desktop as well, so I
| don't really have those problems. How's KDE Connect superior?
|
| I'm seriously interested, since I read it's a killer feature
| but I cannot really imagine how it would help me.
| cenamus wrote:
| Even just copying your clipboard is very useful.
|
| Also (more so at home) large transfers are pretty fast,
| regularly send movies from and to my phone, at pretty much
| connection speed.
|
| You can also mount your phone storage over the network,
| control your mouse with your phone and much more.
| aidenn0 wrote:
| Those of us who live in the US where SMS is the default
| messenger can't have all of their messengers running on their
| desktop.
| Zak wrote:
| Sure you can. Just use KDE Connect.
| pmontra wrote:
| I can share links to myself with a messenger but it's much
| faster to share them to a given device and see its browser
| open a tab to that link. It works inside apps too: I can
| share a video from phone to tablet (NewPipe, probably YouTube
| too, it's the Android builtin sharing system.)
|
| I can also stop, resume, control volume of media playing on
| another device.
|
| I can share the clipboard, send files, use a remote keyboard
| (I think I disabled it) and ping a device.
|
| It can do a lot more but I'm not using much else, I think.
| johannes1234321 wrote:
| It is less about messengers per se, itnis about interacting
| between devices.
|
| I can share clipboard contentents, can send files, send web
| page urls from phone to desktop to open a browser there, can
| control media playback between devices (switch to next
| track/pause desktop from phone and vice versa) etc also I get
| phone notifications on desktop
|
| (All optional)
| troyvit wrote:
| Silly use case but I watch TV on my laptop in bed and the cat
| likes to watch with me. I use some ancient X11 app to freeze
| the keyboard and mouse and then control vlc, etc. from KDE-
| connect. That way when my cat attacks Jedis he doesn't reboot
| my laptop.
| pmontra wrote:
| I've always run GNOME and KDE Connect port called gsconnect [1]
| works very well. I run it on several Ubuntus and on Debian 11.
| I run the KDE Connect app on my Android devices. That plus
| syncthing are exceptionally good tools to link all my devices
| together.
|
| [1] https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/1319/gsconnect/
| KerbalNo15 wrote:
| Note that you can use it on GNOME with GSConnect. One of my
| favorite apps
| 85392_school wrote:
| If GSConnect doesn't work for you, it's also worth trying
| Valent: https://valent.andyholmes.ca/
| roshin wrote:
| when it works it's amazing. but very often both my phone and
| laptop are connected to the same WiFi, yet kde connect can't see
| them. I can't figure out how to diagnose and solve that when it
| happens
| zenitsukz wrote:
| vpn sometimes
| pull_my_finger wrote:
| I have the same issue, very frustrating. I thought it was a
| firewall issue, or Android's blocking LAN connections without a
| VPN, but at this point I'm pretty sure it's just some KDE
| Connect bug.
| cromka wrote:
| Maybe local DNS/DHCP resolution issue? I have this on my LAN
| with with other services and hosts: the Dnsmasq drops the
| ball every now and then and does not update the lease
| database, which results in hosts seemingly being offline.
|
| I would try fixed IPs to see if this solves the issue for
| you.
| ottah wrote:
| Same, it's just too unreliable to be a tool for me. Which feels
| like the experience with everything that relies on automatic
| network discovery.
| janwl wrote:
| Mirrors my experience with AirDrop.
| Libidinalecon wrote:
| Same, I haven't used it in years because it was so
| disappointing when it would randomly stop working.
|
| In the last year I have even given up on KDE in favor of
| Cinnamon on Mint.I loved KDE but there would always be some
| issue coming up. LTS Mint with Cinnamon has been rock solid.
| jcgl wrote:
| It's pretty dreadful on iOS, presumably due to OS constraints.
| I miss how amazing it was on Android.
| hagbard_c wrote:
| ...then why use iOS? Get a de-Googled Android and relish in
| the power a pocket personal computer can provide when the
| vendor takes its thumb off the scales.
| jcgl wrote:
| I don't need software freedom preached to me, thanks. And
| I'm not going to waste time trying to prove my free
| software bona fides to you.
|
| Suffice it to say: at the time I bought this iPhone 12
| mini, there weren't really good options when prioritizing
| {small form factor,good privacy posture,good security
| posture,software freedom}.
| geokon wrote:
| Very typical for my KDE experience. Things break and it's
| impossible to figure out what's gone wrong b/c there is no
| additional information/logs/diagnostics exposed to the user.
| Everything to do with Networking and Bluetooth is plagued by
| this (though to be fair things break a lot less than ~5 years
| ago)
| jeroenhd wrote:
| It should work on any network where mDNS works and where TCP
| connections can be established. There's not much going on
| that's more complicated than that when it comes to device
| discovery.
|
| Many VPN configurations break mDNS and other broadcasts (i.e.
| Chromecast, file shares, that kind of thing), though. A lot of
| "how to get started with WireGuard/OpenVPN/etc." guides stop
| the moment HTTP(S) connections work, but there's more to a
| functional network than that.
|
| I found that I could get KDE Connect working on my buggy VPN
| profile by manually specifying remote IP addresses for devices
| on the other end of the VPN in the settings.
| aidenn0 wrote:
| Oh, so if I setup mDNS on my workstation KDE Connect will be
| more reliable? Kind of annoying since I DNS already works to
| resolve names.
| jeroenhd wrote:
| Your desktop probably already has mDNS set up, most user-
| friendly distros do it out of the box.
|
| But it doesn't really matter, because KDE Connect
| implements its own sort-of mDNS system by itself, in the
| form of JSON broadcast across the local network on a
| standard port offering hostnames, services, and other
| metadata. Actual, real mDNS would require integration into
| the host's networking setup and that's too much to ask for
| clients like Android or iOS and you'd need to implement it
| manually in many other cases, so they kind of made their
| own mDNS. It also means you don't need root access to run
| KDE Connect on your device, which makes it viable on
| platforms like the Steam Deck.
|
| To get KDE Connect working reliably, you need to make
| multicast traffic work reliably. Every network has its own
| restrictions when it comes to multicast so it's hard to
| know what specific tweaks your workstation needs. Having
| KDE Connect open on your phone, you should see packets
| coming in on your desktop on 255.255.255.255 on 1716/udp.
| aidenn0 wrote:
| 1. I don't use a user-friendly distro
|
| 2. Thanks for that info; next time it fails to connect
| I'll take a look in wireshark.
| tga wrote:
| Same here, Fedora and iOS. I've mostly stopped using it because
| I couldn't rely on the app working when I needed it.
|
| The computer doesn't even change addresses, there is no need
| for mDNS or anything fancy, setting up devices manually once
| would be just fine.
| cpuguy83 wrote:
| Yeah eveey time I want to use it I generally need to unpair
| and pair it again. Weird stuff like trying to send my
| clipboard from my phone and it goes the other way.
|
| It's handy, but needs work.
| greenavocado wrote:
| Speculating here based solely on general networking knowledge.
| You may have "AP Isolation" enabled and/or multicast blocking
| on your network may be causing problems.
|
| If I was working on KDE Connect I would add a microphone and
| speaker based pairing system using OFDM modulation lifted from
| Rattlegram. Each device would share all IP addresses associated
| with themselves using sound to broadcast the information.
| estimator7292 wrote:
| Just use Bluetooth. These days it's very uncommon for a PC to
| _not_ have Bluetooth. More of my PCs have Bluetooth than have
| microphones.
| greenavocado wrote:
| Maybe the Bluetooth connection can be used for IP and port
| discovery.
| dTal wrote:
| Agreed. I've read a lot of apologetics for KDE Connect but
| there's definitely something wrong with discovery. Often it
| will fail to discover other devices unless I click "refresh" in
| both devices. I've gone as far as writing a script to force-
| refresh at 1 minute intervals. Sometimes it can't be persuaded
| to work at all. Blame my network maybe, but LocalSend works
| every time.
| Jedd wrote:
| That's weird, especially with the exhaustive details you
| provided there.
|
| I've rarely had any connection issues with Google Pixel (7
| currently) and Debian with Plasma 5 or 6 on x86 / 64 platforms.
| AnonymousPlanet wrote:
| I used to recommend KDE-Connect left and right but stopped
| doing so because it went from rock solid and dependable to a
| complete disaster in a couple of years.
|
| Linux, Android, iOS, macOS all worked in harmony. Now not even
| two Android phones using the same software version can see each
| other, file transfers keep failing after a brief while. And all
| with the same devices that worked before, across various
| networks.
|
| Not to say anything about connectivity between Linux and
| Android or iOS.
| mixmastamyk wrote:
| Some wifi APs block client to client traffic by default these
| days.
| AnonymousPlanet wrote:
| Mine does not. Same AP.
| Self-Perfection wrote:
| It has really got unreliable in my experience.
|
| Often desktop client just cannot connect to mobile. At first I
| noticed that this happens when desktop client starts to output
| in logs these (reported [1]): kdeconnect.core:
| Too many remembered identities, ignoring "<id of KDE Connect on
| my android device>" received via UDP
|
| Restarting desktop client helped, so I wrote watcher that
| monitors logs for such lines and restarts kdeconnect. But it
| turned out to be insufficient. Now I have this script running
| in background to restart kdeconnectd whenever connection is
| missing, and finally can use KDE Connect reliably:
| #!/bin/dash -x while sleep 1m; do
| nmcli connection show --active | grep wifi || continue
| kdeconnect-cli -l | grep reachable && continue
| # notify-send 'No reachable devices via kdeconnect.
| Restarting' systemctl --no-pager --user status app-
| org.kde.kdeconnect.daemon@autostart.service systemctl
| --no-pager --user stop app-
| org.kde.kdeconnect.daemon@autostart.service killall
| kdeconnectd systemctl --no-pager --user start app-
| org.kde.kdeconnect.daemon@autostart.service done
|
| [1] https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=506563
| ValdikSS wrote:
| The majority of desktop Wi-Fi cards/chipsets have buggy drivers
| that break mDNS discovery in one way or another.
|
| To the point that I'd say that Wi-Fi drivers are the most
| offender in printer discovery problems, which also rely on
| mDNS.
|
| Another issue that many mDNS applications, including KDE
| Connect, don't account on multi-interface setups and send
| respond to mDNS request using incorrect network interface:
| https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=507972 /
| https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=507954
| lazycouchpotato wrote:
| At least for Windows, marking a WiFi connection from Public to
| Private solved a lot of connection issues for me.
| cromka wrote:
| Is there any update on whether Apple had already opened their iOS
| API in EU, which would allow to match the KDE Connect's Android
| functionality?
| fsflover wrote:
| It's probably not so easy,
| https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44557348
| CaptainOfCoit wrote:
| I remember getting excited about KDE Connect but then being
| completely disappointed that it basically non-functional on
| iOS...
|
| As I remember it (tried it last year I think), the application
| needs to be in the foreground in order to do anything at all,
| because of Apple's (purposeful) limitations of doing things in
| the background.
|
| So if you were hoping to be able to install this and sync stuff
| without effort and having to leave the app open all the time,
| Apple seems to be vehemently against anything like that,
| probably because they have their own solutions for this...
|
| Edit: The GitHub repository actually goes through the Apple-
| induced problem:
|
| > iOS is very much designed around foreground interactions.
| Therefore, background "daemon-style" applications don't really
| exist under conventional means, so the behavior where KDE
| Connect iOS is unresponsive in the background is more or less
| intended. There are technically some special categories and
| "hacky" methods to try to get it to run in the background, but
| in general, there is no intended/by-design method of keeping a
| "daemon-style" app running forever in the background. For more
| information, see this post on the Apple Dev Forums
|
| https://github.com/KDE/kdeconnect-ios
| AbstractH24 wrote:
| > I remember getting excited about KDE Connect but then being
| completely disappointed that it basically non-functional on
| iOS...
|
| I remember this too. It happened to me about 90 seconds ago.
| groovybits wrote:
| Maybe I'm missing something, but what "daemon-style" app
| tasks are you doing, or expecting, with KDE Connect? Its core
| functions seem to be quick tasks; sending files, clipboard,
| remote control, etc.
|
| Perhaps my usage is basic in this way - I've never had an
| issue with using the iOS app as it is.
| CaptainOfCoit wrote:
| From the feature list, how do I actually accomplish these
| things without having the app open on iOS, or at all?
|
| - Receive your phone notifications on your desktop computer
|
| - Reply to text messages (or even read?)
| peatmoss wrote:
| I don't think those work between iOS and KDE Connect. I
| would love to be able to type iMessages on my Linux
| desktop's computer. If I'm wrong about this not working,
| someone please let me know, but I've never been able to
| make messages work.
| sombragris wrote:
| At least in my use case (as link between Android devices and both
| Linux/Win PCs) KDE Connect is a real killer app. It enabled
| seamless integration and saved me lots of hassle and time. It
| really should get more exposure.
|
| I see reports that it doesn't work. These are mostly for distros
| where Plasma is either rather old or taking a backseat after
| other environment (usually Gnome). I'm having great results with
| the latest Plasma 6 on Slackware-current and also in a standard
| Windows 11 environment.
| dmpk2k wrote:
| How is Slackware doing nowadays? Last release was several years
| ago, but I need a replacement for Win 10 on my PC.
| immibis wrote:
| Why Slackware specifically? You can install any distribution.
| I use Gentoo btw - not really a distribution so much as a
| distribution construction kit. There are other popular
| distros, notably Arch.
| dmpk2k wrote:
| I liked Slackware a lot way back when. No deeper reason.
|
| Currently leaning towards Debian Testing, but that might
| depend on my testing of Slackware now. I use Arch daily in
| WSL, but I've have had enough breakages that I don't want
| it as my primary OS.
| Flamingoat wrote:
| I use Debian 13 (stable). It is very solid. I was using
| Debian Trixie when it was testing and there was breakage
| twice.
|
| I would make the /boot partition twice the size the
| installer suggests though as on my laptop I can't upgrade
| the kernel because the /boot runs out of space. The
| laptop is used to view old manuals in PDFs while working
| on my car so I don't really care.
|
| TBH any of the major Linux distros that have been around
| for a while are fine. I don't like Fedora or Ubuntu
| because they are a bit corporate.
|
| I personally wouldn't bother with any of the derivative
| distros. Typically there isn't a lot different other than
| they've pre-configured some packages. IME that causes
| more headaches long term.
| immibis wrote:
| Debian is a very solid, stable, but slow-moving
| distribution.
| Flamingoat wrote:
| Yeh. I'm used to using old version of RHEL at work so I
| ended up learning how to deal with slow moving distros.
|
| I use the OS as a base system and most of the stuff that
| needs to be newer versions can be done by installing the
| binary to to ~/bin as it is added to your path by
| ~/.profile if the directory exists on Debian.
|
| Stuff like Discord, Slack, Kdenlive, OBS etc. I install
| using flatpak.
|
| Other stuff. Go, Vim (I compile vim from source) and nvim
| can stuff can be compiled or dropped into /usr/local
|
| That covers most stuff IME. However I appreciate this
| won't work for everyone.
| Rediscover wrote:
| > Why Slackware specifically?
|
| To me, coming from Unix, it's mostly sane.
| swaits wrote:
| Slackware's last release was 2.5 years ago.
|
| Look at Fedora (if you like RPM distros) if you're after
| something pretty nicely put together that stays reasonably
| well up to date. Very well maintained. Influenced by Red Hat
| (or "led by" or even "owned by"), which works for some, not
| for others.
|
| CachyOS is trendy these days. EndeavourOS is basically Arch
| with an installer.
|
| There are a few distros targeted at Windows refugees. ZorinOS
| is well regarded. AnduinOS is a newer entry. But if you're
| willing to walk away from a Windows-like UI, skip these.
| Flamingoat wrote:
| Arch has an installer these days. It works pretty well and
| you can have a system up and running in about 20 minutes if
| you have a fast internet connection.
|
| For people that want a Windows like UI, I would probably
| suggest Cinnamon. It works pretty much like Windows 7/10
| without all the visual nonsense that KDE typically has.
| bityard wrote:
| My experience is that KDE 6 has very little visual
| nonsense right out of the box. 4 and 5 did have a lot
| more, but most/all of it could be disabled. Most other
| Linux DEs don't really let you customize them to your own
| personal level of nonsense at any rate.
| Flamingoat wrote:
| I probably see a lot more than other people since I spent
| a good few years doing pixel perfect web dev.
|
| I am not being hyperbolic when I say that I can see a
| pixel out of place on a webpage on the other side of the
| room.
|
| https://kde.org/content/home/main.jpg
|
| This is a screenshot from their site. Just in this
| screenshot I see the following:
|
| 1) there is an horrendous text shadow effect on the text
| under the "Home" desktop icon in the top left.
|
| 2) Clock text is too large compared to the rest of the
| interface, especially the icons next to it.
|
| 3) Trash Icon looks like out of place compared to the
| other icons.
|
| 4) Drop shadow effect on the window and the start menu
| thing. It kinda too dark really.
|
| 5) Every single gap between interface elements seems
| different and off. The icon sizes seem a bit all over the
| place.
|
| 6) There is a gradient on the window title bar and
| rounded corners. Cinnamon does this as well. I dunno it
| is very Window XP Luna (which I never liked).
|
| 7) The window control icons look off to me and don't fit
| in with the rest of the interface IMO.
|
| A lot of this I appreciate can be probably be changed.
| But that is how it comes OOTB if it is an official
| screenshot. It feels like a Windows Vista ripoff.
|
| Generally I find KDE lacks "taste". None of the Linux
| GUIs are that great tbh. People put up fancy screenshots,
| but I guarantee the moment the windows are arranged in
| any other way it looks not so great.
| saubeidl wrote:
| I agree with your assessment of KDE lacking "taste". Imo,
| it looks like a system designed by engineers, not
| designers.
|
| GNOME has the opposite problem imo. I feel like it has
| "taste", but it feels like a system fully designed by
| designers, with no engineers giving practical pushback.
| It's the same issue macOS has, but amplified: Designers
| have some grand idea about their vision being the one
| true way of using the system and made it hard to
| impossible to customize.
|
| I currently use KDE, but am not happy with it for the
| reasons you described. I used to use GNOME, but wasn't
| happy with it for the reasons above.
|
| I have high hopes for Cosmic [0]. It seems like that one
| might get the balance right.
|
| [0] https://system76.com/cosmic
| Flamingoat wrote:
| > I agree with your assessment of KDE lacking "taste".
| Imo, it looks like a system designed by engineers, not
| designers.
|
| TBF, I was linked their more up to date screenshots in a
| sibling thread and it does look more consistent but it
| still seems off.
|
| > I currently use KDE, but am not happy with it for the
| reasons you described. I used to use GNOME, but wasn't
| happy with it for the reasons above.
|
| I don't like any of the Linux DEs tbh. They all have
| issues.
|
| I might give KDE a go. But I think Debian does a poor job
| at packaging it and I don't really want to change
| distros.
|
| > I have high hopes for Cosmic [0]. It seems like that
| one might get the balance right.
|
| I tried compiling Cosmic on source on Debian 12. I ran
| out of memory on the VM I was doing it on. I also found
| out that on Debian 12 their rustc was broken!
| saubeidl wrote:
| Do you think GNOME has similar UI issues? In my view,
| it's "pretty", but just doesn't let me configure it the
| way I want it to without hacking around way too much.
| Flamingoat wrote:
| Yes. I agree. Gnome is kinda weird OOTB.
|
| I ended up installing Dash To Dock and Ubuntu App
| Indicator Icons when I was using it and I ended up with
| something decent. I also usually have to faff around in
| the gnome tweaks tool to get the old "legacy" apps and
| the new apps looking consistent.
| ognarb wrote:
| That screenshot is very old, for an actual screenshot.
| For an actual screenshot, you can find one on today's
| announcement:
| https://kde.org/announcements/plasma/6/6.5.0/
|
| Btw as one the web developer behind KDE's website, do you
| mind telling me where you found that screenshot?
| Flamingoat wrote:
| > That screenshot is very old, for an actual screenshot.
| For an actual screenshot, you can find one on today's
| announcement:
| https://kde.org/announcements/plasma/6/6.5.0/
|
| Those do look better admittedly. I still think it looks a
| bit "Fischer Price" but that is personal taste.
|
| > Btw as one the web developer behind KDE's website, do
| you mind telling me where you found that screenshot?
|
| Of course. It was on your screenshots page that I found
| via DDG
|
| https://duckduckgo.com/?q=KDE+screenshots
|
| The first result I go was:
|
| https://kde.org/screenshots/
| WD-42 wrote:
| The clutter is real though, take a look at this
| screenshot: https://imgur.com/a/nkedVYq
|
| Stock Konsole on the left, stock Ghostty on the right.
| Note that both terminals have multiple tabs open. The
| amount of wasted space and visual noise in Konsole is
| baffling. Not to mention Ghostty is able to display 4
| more lines of actual console output (you know, the whole
| point of a console).
|
| In my experience, many KDE apps follow the same UX. Great
| for configuration and being able to use primarily the
| mouse, bad if you are more interested in a keyboard
| centric flow with a focus on the content.
| dingnuts wrote:
| Cinnamon? Really? In a KDE Connect thread?
|
| KDE actually was built around the Windows paradigm; Gnome
| is a Mac clone. Cinnamon is a fork of Gnome maintained as
| a side project from a distro with a bad security and
| management track record. Really the only thing it adds is
| a launcher; KDE optionally provides the same style if the
| user wants it.
|
| Go find a thread where your pet software is on topic.
| This thread is about KDE Connect. Does Cinnamon support
| that? Does Cinnamon offer anything like it?
| Flamingoat wrote:
| > Cinnamon? Really? In a KDE Connect thread? > Go find a
| thread where your pet software is on topic. > This thread
| is about KDE Connect. Does Cinnamon support that?
|
| In this particular part of thread, people were talking
| about Windows UI replacements. Like it or not
| conversations do diverge from the original intended
| purpose.
|
| Secondly, Cinnamon isn't my "pet software". Cinnamon IMO
| is more similar to the Windows 7/10/11 UI than KDE and
| has none of the fluff that KDE normally has in it. I
| actually don't really like any of the Linux UIs. I think
| they all suffer from significant issues.
|
| > KDE actually was built around the Windows paradigm;
| Gnome is a Mac clone. Cinnamon is a fork of Gnome
| maintained as a side project from a distro with a bad
| security and management track record. Really the only
| thing it adds is a launcher; KDE optionally provides the
| same style if the user wants it.
|
| It seems that you really don't like cinnamon and thus why
| you are being so aggressive. I don't really appreciate
| the unwarranted hostility.
|
| I don't personally use Linux Mint (I use Debian). I don't
| like derivative distros for the reason that you
| highlighted. However Cinnamon seems works reasonably well
| and tends to be quite a bit lighter than KDE IME.
|
| > This thread is about KDE Connect. Does Cinnamon support
| that? Does Cinnamon offer anything like it?
|
| You are aware that you can use KDE software in other
| Desktop Environments? It took me a few seconds to do a
| web search and it seems that you can use KDE connect and
| Cinnamon at the same time.
| WD-42 wrote:
| > Does Cinnamon support that? Does Cinnamon offer
| anything like it?
|
| KDE Connect can be used with Cinnamon via GSConnect.
| hexagonwin wrote:
| It's doing very well. The Slackware 15.0 release is now a few
| years old, though the packages are still being updated.
| Slackware-current has latest everything.
| gear54rus wrote:
| I definitely have a need for this, but I can't stomach same-
| network requirement.
|
| Maybe they need self-hostable coordination server so that
| devices can connect to each other through it.
|
| For now it's still 'send to telegram saved messages' for me.
| exdeejay_ wrote:
| Have you considered using Tailscale to get around the same-
| network requirement?
| gear54rus wrote:
| I am a heavy user of it. I don't want to stay connected to
| it 24/7.
| forbiddenlake wrote:
| Tailscale doesn't support mDNS / multicast at all, making
| working with KDE Connect more nebulous. I attempted to add
| a static peer via the Tailscale hostname, but both ends
| report not reachable, and the Tailscale daemon is
| constantly dropping multicast packets. So I'm not sure how
| this helps, but I also don't have a use case - if I'm on my
| laptop, my phone is on the same Wifi network 99% of the
| time.
| ezst wrote:
| > self-hostable coordination server
|
| What a long way to spell VPN :-) (been using it for a decade
| or so through wireguard)
| gear54rus wrote:
| No, vpn takes over your network and you have to fight weird
| issues on different platforms. This seems like a square peg
| for a round hole.
| ezst wrote:
| Not really? I mean, it's easy to set and forget which
| subnets get tunnelled with wireguard (and others, it's
| just that wg forces you to be explicit about it)
| jeroenhd wrote:
| Wireguard is purely point-to-point. You have to manually
| specify any configuration involving routing more than
| just the local IP addresses you add.
|
| Not sure if it's the best solution, but there's no reason
| to take over your entire network.
|
| Even with my old OpenVPN setup I had a config where only
| my local 10.2.0.0/16 got routed over the VPN, everything
| else went straight to the outside world. Set up IPv6 ULA
| and you don't need to worry about IP addressing
| conflicts.
| p4bl0 wrote:
| I've been using KDE Connect without a hassle for years on
| Debian stable as well :).
| eitally wrote:
| I had a use case that isn't the primary function of KDE
| Connect, but where KDE Connect worked well: file sharing from a
| Mac to an Android phone. I had no idea apps like KDE Connect
| existed and now I'm hooked.
|
| That said, for my specific use case, Blip is a FAR superior
| option, and much lighter weight.
| mid-kid wrote:
| The branding does a major disservice to this application - it
| works like a charm on my windows and i3wm setups, having no
| trouble sharing a clipboard and files. There are very few
| features if any that only work on KDE.
|
| Sometimes on windows it needs a click of the refresh button to
| get going after connecting to a network. The discovery is wonky
| on some platforms.
| throawayonthe wrote:
| KDE is simply the 'community' that maintains it, makes sense
| why that's the branding used despite the inevitable confusion
|
| (the DE has been called Plasma for ages, and almost everything
| KDE works outside of it)
| ahakki wrote:
| they should rebrand it as Konnekt.
| groovybits wrote:
| Legacy KDE apps used to follow this naming convention until
| the late 2000s, early 2010s.
|
| You had apps like Konqueror (web browser, file manager),
| KMail (email client), Kompose (music score editor), KImages
| (later rebranded to Krita), and KDevelop (software dev
| IDE).
|
| Modern KDE apps dropped the 'K' prefix and moved to a more
| recognizable scheme, like: Falkon (web browser), Dolphin
| (file manager), and Okular (document viewer).
|
| As you can see, its now a mix of whether the app keeps the
| 'K' in the name. Some do not.
| CaptainOfCoit wrote:
| > Legacy KDE apps used to follow this naming convention
| until the late 2000s, early 2010s.
|
| Wow, what a coincident that parent just happened to
| suggest the identical naming convention. What are the
| chances?
| account42 wrote:
| > the DE has been called Plasma for ages
|
| I disagree.
| r14c wrote:
| Its been plasma since 2009, a year after KDE 4 came out and
| they rebranded a bunch of their projects. Whether 16 years
| amounts to "ages" ig is up to interpretation.
| hnlmorg wrote:
| I've been running KDE (as in the desktop) for more than 20
| years and I had no idea that Connect worked without Plasma.
|
| Thanks for sharing
| The_President wrote:
| Used to use this all the time, but about six months ago an update
| broke the ability for two computers I have to interact. Instead
| the daemon crashes repeatedly until I nuke it.
| marcu123 wrote:
| KDE Connects works amazingly for me. I get, once in a bluee moon,
| the random "Can't see the other device" bug. I have solved it
| with the basic dis/connect to the wifi both on my phone and
| computer. Also, check your Firewall on your computer. Some
| distros will not "Auto add" KDE Connect to the exception list of
| your Firewall. Some routers also put LAN and WLAN devices on
| different VLANS.
| ayoisaiah wrote:
| KDE Connect is great, but it sometimes doesn't work well enough
| on Apple Devices. I've been using LocalSend with better success
| when sharing to Android or Windows. But for Android to
| Linux/Windows and Vice versa, it's pretty much perfect.
| damion6 wrote:
| I love KDE connect. After install I turn off things I don't want,
| but I have options. Works better than any similar app. Connects
| essentially and system. I pair it with tail scale or zero-tier
| depending on needs. Multiboot, all major os's mobile. PC, Mac all
| have ports. It's under rated
| __jonas wrote:
| This looks neat, from what it looks like it's essentially an Open
| Source version of Apple's continuity/airdrop/airplay stuff?
|
| Seems like it even does the universal clipboard as well, I use
| that all the time with Apple devices, really cool to see an OSS
| alternative.
| mbeex wrote:
| The one thing I dislike, is the trouble to finish the application
| in a sane way:
|
| https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=423497
| goda90 wrote:
| I can't say I'm experienced with Android development, but is
| there something about this issue that makes it hard for a
| volunteer to submit a PR? Seems like it should be just an OS
| API call or something.
| immibis wrote:
| Android doesn't really have such a thing as quitting an app.
| You're meant to just stop doing stuff when off screen, and
| let your app be evicted in LRU order (or whatever order is
| actually used). If your app does background stuff you should
| have a settings toggle to do the background stuff or not, and
| when it's on and the phone is on, you do the background
| stuff.
| ranger_danger wrote:
| This is not true: https://stackoverflow.com/a/40231289
| immibis wrote:
| This closes an activity - the user interface of an app -
| not an app. In Windows terms, this is DestroyWindow, not
| ExitProcess.
|
| You can also exit an Android process, of course. It's
| probably what you're looking for, but it's weirdly
| inconsistent with the overall user experience and you
| should try to make something consistent instead. Even
| closing a top-level activity is weird.
| alright2565 wrote:
| This doesn't seem needed to me, I've never seen an android app
| have a way to close it. Or any kind of battery life impact from
| KDE Connect for that matter.
| BolexNOLA wrote:
| I always appreciate posts like this even though it's clear a lot
| of people already know about KDE connect. I only took the plunge
| into a Linux daily driver for my machine a couple of months ago,
| so I'm still learning a lot. Just tested it and this is really
| useful! I depend a lot on LocalSend which is fine but this is so
| far looking like a better option overall.
|
| Gets a little funky talking to my iPhone but I'm surprised how
| easily things like the remote control work right out the box
| mr-karan wrote:
| I also quite like Localsend to quickly share files on the same
| network. Used to send photos/files to myself on Whatsapp/Telegram
| before but after discovering Localsend, stopped!
|
| https://localsend.org/
| swaits wrote:
| Also PairDrop, which doesn't require installing anything.
| tempfile wrote:
| Can this be used without KDE, on another desktop environment?
| Without systemd, even?
| yjftsjthsd-h wrote:
| It definitely works on other DEs. As an extreme case, there's
| even a GNOME extension implementation:
| https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/1319/gsconnect/
|
| I can't specifically speak to systemd, but it'd surprise me if
| there was a dependency there; it's not running that deep in the
| system. Also there's a guix package and they don't use systemd,
| so that's another mark in favor.
| npteljes wrote:
| It blew my mind when I discovered it, and I use it regularly
| since. I dual-boot, and it's installed on both my Linux and
| Windows systems. I mostly use the shared clipboard functionality
| (especially great to "send" complex messages and passwords from
| PC to phone), and send files from the phone to the PC.
| whalesalad wrote:
| I can't get this to work across subnets/wifi networks in my home
| network. My phone can see my workstation (KDE) but not the other
| way around.
| Joel_Mckay wrote:
| In general, some wifi routers will offer to isolate cross-
| forwarding between WLAN hosts. Depending on the model, one may
| not be able to modify this setting.
|
| Best of luck =3
| The_President wrote:
| The gyro mouse is a fantastic implementation! Used it to control
| a large television from far away and it works very well.
| p0w3n3d wrote:
| I was exasperated when I found out that I can't send files from
| my Android to my MacBook via Bluetooth. This is a standard
| protocol. Also (of course, how could I supect otherwise) the file
| transfer does not work too. These all work flawlessly under Linux
| / Gnome + KDE.
|
| For file transfer I used LocalSend, but it was still annoying.
| agoodusername63 wrote:
| I like this with Linux but it's so inconsistent on windows that I
| just don't bother with it much anymore. I'm on windows most of
| the time.
| amelius wrote:
| It works in one direction: sending files from my Pixel (GOS)
| phone to Linux.
|
| But the UX could be better. When I send a file, no notification
| is shown on my phone. But when I look in my Downloads/ folder,
| the file is there, so that's good.
|
| Now, when I open the kdeconnect-app on Linux, it cannot connect
| to my phone. Even if the app is open on my phone. I see the
| phone, but it says "disconnected".
|
| So, as it stands, I put this in the "barely works, needs more
| love from developers" category.
| andybak wrote:
| I discovered this when I needed an easy way to get stuff to and
| from a Steam Deck. I now use it on my Windows and Linux PCs,
| Macbook, Android phone, Meta Quest and the Steam Deck!
| account42 wrote:
| This seems to have more technical info:
| https://userbase.kde.org/KDEConnect
|
| E.g. that it works over the local network or bluetooth only, no
| remote connectivity without a VPN which the marketing page with
| fancy graphics (https://kdeconnect.kde.org/) doesn't even tell
| you because it's so dumbed down to the point of being useless.
|
| Also, why the fuck does KDE have two separate wikis.
| eighthourblink wrote:
| Been using this application for years now. Love / Support it
| stormed wrote:
| KDE Connect has been my answer to Apple's Airdrop for the last
| couple of years. It's an excellent program; I even use it on my
| Mac for file transferring with my Steam Deck
| groovybits wrote:
| Same use case, its also been very useful for copying and
| pasting text from my Mac to the Steam Deck, similar to
| Universal Copy and Paste between Apple devices.
| AndyMcConachie wrote:
| Another good one for this is Localsend.
|
| https://localsend.org/
| nickjj wrote:
| How well does this work for sending a lot of files without re-
| sending the same file?
|
| I have a desktop + laptop + phone.
|
| When I want to sync a directory with a lot of files I wrote a
| little shell script that uses rsync to do it. This does require
| running SSH on my laptop but I can invoke the shell script from
| my desktop.
|
| Likewise with my phone I want to backup my camera photos, using
| rsync is nice here to avoid sending thousands of them over every
| time. I run SSH on my phone with Termux, it was really painless
| to set up and is only on when I run it. Likewise, I invoke the
| shell script from my desktop to do the transfer.
| groovybits wrote:
| For this purpose, I would not suggest KDE Connect.
|
| What you're looking for is something more like SyncThing:
| https://syncthing.net
| bityard wrote:
| I use SyncThing on my phone to back up photos/videos on my
| phone to my NAS. The UX is not great, but it does sync things
| correctly 100% of the time. For years on end, I never have to
| worry about it.
| nickjj wrote:
| I thought about SyncThing in the past but was reluctant
| because I don't have a centralized server and I don't always
| want 1 device to be the definitive source of truth.
|
| For example: - On desktop, wrote a blog
| post - On desktop, pushed my blog post folder to my
| laptop - On laptop, publish the blog post 3 days
| later - On laptop, fix a typo and publish the post
| - On desktop, pull in the changes from the laptop
|
| The same type of situations happen with KeePassXC's database
| file. Sometimes I make an update on my phone or laptop and
| want it sent to my desktop, other times I make the update on
| my desktop and want it sent to the other 2 devices.
|
| With SyncThing, would this overwrite files on the wrong
| device as soon as I "sync"?
| tylergetsay wrote:
| I wish KDE Connect supported a self hosted relay server
| configuration. I often use mobile internet and would love for KDE
| Connect to still work, without having to start Tailscale on my
| phone + manually configure IPs
| bityard wrote:
| I love KDE Connect, it is insanely useful and pairs nicely with
| KDE Plasma.
|
| But I think it has some major usability issues. The two things I
| struggle with the most:
|
| 1. Sometimes (not always, but often!) the phone is not connected
| to the computer at all. In order to send something from the
| computer to the phone, I have to unlock the phone, find KDE
| connect in the apps, run it, and connect to the computer. I
| understand that this could very well be just The Way of Android,
| but it's still obnoxious.
|
| 2. The text/SMS sub-app in KDE connect is terrible. It doesn't
| sync text messages in the background, so it tries to sync when
| you start it. But it's very slow and takes a good 5-10 minutes
| for all of your text messages to sync. And apparently it does
| contacts last because in the beginning you only see phone
| numbers. And it doesn't show pictures. And (this is normally not
| a complaint I make), it is very ugly. GS Connect looks way
| better, but I have no idea if it _works_ any better.
| sepsol wrote:
| I second this, especially the second point. I love KDE Connect
| + GSConnect setup between my Android phone and Ubuntu machine,
| but the texting app is so laggy it makes the experience
| unpleasant.
| indymike wrote:
| KDE Connect is amazing. It's convenient.
| user_7832 wrote:
| Slightly tangential, I find the lack of a "proper" way of
| organizing data across multiple devices frankly _terrible_. KDE
| connect is _nice_ , but it's a bandaid patch. Airdrop between
| your devices is the same. Apple wants you to store everything on
| iCloud... which isn't _terrible_ , as long as everything syncs
| fast enough, you can pay, and you're not without internet (an
| issue even in urban areas like for eg on the subway).
|
| Modern devices have just "grown", your phone with its 2FA app is
| also a source of identity, yet the boundaries between a tool to
| be used, a computer to "work on" (even an SMS to your boss counts
| as work for me!), and a "fundamental part of your life" - whether
| by you or by a megacorp (see: notifications! Mindless scrolling
| on the social media of your choice!) - are all blurred.
| jancsika wrote:
| The feature set commenters here want is insane:
|
| * fast as possible
|
| * LAN, but also WAN when necessary
|
| * in fact how about multi-protocol, and use the fastest protocol
| that's available on both devices, it's 2025 people!
|
| * work for sending a gargantuan amount of files with possible
| interruptions (essentially, be rsync)
|
| * be battery efficient, it's 2025 people!
|
| * don't rely on a centralized cloud server, just connect the
| damned devices to each other
|
| If you think you can hack this together, you should write it for
| Gnu Hurd because they'll release that well before you're finished
| ValdikSS wrote:
| >* be battery efficient, it's 2025 people!
|
| It took a long time for me to prove that what KDE does
| negatively impact the battery life.
|
| https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=441830
|
| The other user even wrote a LD_PRELOAD hijacking library to not
| recompile the application every time
|
| https://github.com/max0x7ba/kdeconnect-powersave-keepalive
| ndriscoll wrote:
| A 5 second keepalive seems unnecessary, but does that
| actually impact battery life? How long does the device take
| to move in and out of powersave states? I'd think you'd be
| looking at _maybe_ 20-40 microseconds of CPU time to handle
| the packet, so 0.0008% of the time awake due to this. Are
| other parts of the device just super slow at moving in and
| out of powersave states?
| ValdikSS wrote:
| Yes, it has dramatic impact on the battery life.
|
| Wi-Fi in lower power state, when it has nothing to respond
| to, disables power amplifier and only listens to incoming
| data. Some functions which are usually performed by the OS
| are offloaded on smartphones to the Wi-Fi chip, such as
| ARP/NDP replies, so it doesn't need to wake up a CPU to
| perform simple answers.
|
| However with the constant keep-alive it has to both enable
| power amplifier and to wake up the CPU to send the reply
| that the socket is still alive.
|
| I have a single-board computer with and old Mediatek chip
| (10 years old), and there Wi-Fi PA increases power
| consumption by 200mW. Another reporter in the ticket told
| that his smartphone works basically 1/2 of its common
| battery life with KDE Connect enabled.
|
| Keep-alives (not necessary TCP keep alives, but any of this
| kind of packets) are the _MAIN_ reason for internet battery
| drain while idle, and are tricky to debug if you don't know
| where to look (Android lists it as "Android System" or
| "Phone Idle")
|
| For example, Golang applications had 15 second keep alive
| until recently: https://github.com/golang/go/issues/48622.
| Imagine you've opened the website which uses golang web
| server/proxy and enabled notifications from it in the
| browser, which use WebSocket from the website itself. Now
| every time your CPU is woke up every 15 seconds until you
| close the page and notification channel is offloaded to
| google/mozilla servers. And remember: every TCP connection
| has its own 15-second Keep-Alive in different intervals, so
| it's more like 5-7 second CPU wakeup interval.
|
| The same applies for VPN. When anybody say that anways-on
| VPN connection drains battery, that is 90% if the time is
| due to frequent keep-alive packets from the VPN server.
|
| Everything above applies to cellular connection as well,
| it's the same principle.
| snthd wrote:
| Fixed in "Remove custom keepalive intervals" merged 12 Aug
| 2024
|
| https://invent.kde.org/network/kdeconnect-
| kde/-/merge_reques...
| ValdikSS wrote:
| It improved the battery life but made the connection
| activity detection worse (the disconnected phone won't be
| detected for up to 2 hours), but I didn't complain anymore.
|
| I initially set it to 5 minutes.
| adenta wrote:
| I've had trouble getting KDE connect to work as a shared
| clipboard between Android and my Mac. Has anyone ever done that
| successfully? I couldn't find any documentation to indicate
| people have which is a real bummer.
| tasuki wrote:
| I've been using this and recently had a very unpleasant
| experience: it couldn't mount my new Chinese android phone
| (worked with the old one!) and the "send file" feature subtly
| renamed my files (from .tif to .tiff).
|
| It cost me four hours (QField atrocious error messages) and I'm
| still angry about it.
| vrinsd wrote:
| As a happy user of many KDE based programs (konsole, kate,
| dolphin, etc) it's great to see another KDE piece evangelized.
|
| But can someone state conclusively if Bluetooth-base connectivty
| in KDE Connect actually works in 2025? I looked into this a few
| weeks ago and it seemed liked from mailing list posts until
| Bluetooth functionality in KDE Connect equals WiFi connectivity
| the feature is not enabled?
|
| When traveling it's much easier to do "point to point" between
| laptop and phone and in theory Bluetooth can support this easier
| than WiFi via third-party access-point or having to mess with
| WiFi direct.
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