-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday, 2016-03-31 at 12:43 -0700, John Andersen wrote:
On 03/31/2016 02:59 AM, Carlos E. R. wrote:
KDE Connect on Android? Interesting. What does it do? Link handy, perhaps? I found these:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.kde.kdeconnect_tp&hl=en https://community.kde.org/KDEConnect
Yup, Carlos, those are the proper links.
I've been using it for a couple months, and it has been problem free.
I use it for the following:
1) Clipboard Sync between android and computer. (My most common use) Someone sends me a link in a text message and I want to read it on my computer, I just select the link and copy it. I don't even have to send it. I simply open a browser on the computer and Middle click the address bar. The reverse also works, select/copy on Linux, paste into any Android app.
Nice. Although, I typically use WhatsApp on web, on the computer.
2) Quickly move files/pictures/music to Linux from phone. KDE connect becomes an android Share Target, showing up on the list of things you can use to share a file. And its FAST.
Nice.
6) Walk away from the computer with your phone, and it will lock the screen, as you leave the same wifi network, but if your phone is nearby, the screen lock is inhibited.
LOL.
There are a few other things, each configurable or optional in the KDE Desktop Settings plugin. Its amazingly well done, and minimal battery drain.
Cautions: Some phones are set up to drop network connections if the screen goes to sleep. This is obviously something you would want to turn off, or Dolphin integration would suffer.
Yes. It is WiFi, disconnect on hibernate. Saves much battery.
Some phones, and some versions of Android, limit (prevent write) access to the external microsSD card, and you can not always access this storage area of the phone, even it if shows up in dolphin.
It works only over wifi, and only on the current subnet. So if your wifi is served out of a different subnet than your computer, it won't connect.
Obviously.
No Gnome users need apply, as best as I can tell.
Well, that's a problem for me, as I'm most of the time on XFCE. I use a number of KDE applications, just not the desktop. - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. (from 13.1 x86_64 "Bottle" at Telcontar) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.22 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAlb9z9gACgkQtTMYHG2NR9UKPwCeLHlsgOuWqMF2DQRIMuTcKJwy PcIAn0ubkDr7Wpi8NXD0vmNgVfnluFQX =FK2H -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org