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. 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. 3) Your phone Shows up in Dolphin side bar, as just another directory you can browse or drag and drop, copy, files from or to your phone. 4) Text messages and any other alerts you get from your phone show up in KDE notifications. The notification lets you see who is calling before your phone even rings. 5) If your music is playing on KDE, and the phone rings, KDE connect will quiet the music for the duration of the call. 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. 7) You can install the Linux app on multiple computers and select which one you want to send files to, from the phone etc. 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. 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. No Gnome users need apply, as best as I can tell. -- After all is said and done, more is said than done.