Comment by maqnius
4 months ago
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.
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)
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.
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.
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.
Sure you can. Just use KDE Connect.
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.