I just want it to allow pairing when the phone and desktop are on different subnets. I haven't been able to use it at all because of that restriction.
There is also a beta-option for it to connect via bluetooth if that maybe works for you
Cool but eh, design mockups are a dime a dozen
I mean, yeah, this shouldn't be seen as an announcement or whatever, but rather as a thing to discuss and potentially get involved in. KDE is a community project after all.
I think the idea of an actually usable home screen is great and has been long overdue. I personally am not a huge fan of google's material design, but that's just me. But I'd also really like to see the run arbitrary command thingy that they have in the mockups. Something akin to ssh over kde connect would be lovely!
Yes please, these ideas sound great already.
Hopefully the desktop version gets a similar level of attention. For example, manually adding devices has been missing for years in the desktop UI.
I have a stupid idea about a semi-local RSS feed: say there is a db file of your RSS feeds that is automatically synced between your phone and your PC via KDE Connect technology. You can consume said feed with either Akregator (PC) and a phone app (iirc there's already a KDE phone app to read RSS) and both will keep track of your feeds, groups, read status and etcetera. No need to login to a third party service or anything like that.
I just don't know if this makes sense only to me or how to post this as an idea somewhere - the times I've tried to do that in the past I just got sealioned
I mean, I do like the idea, but syncing such a database file is by far the smallest challenge about this (and could be easily achieved today with e.g. Syncthing or Rsync).
The far harder part is getting RSS readers to support the same file format. There is actually a small project (by basically a singular guy), which tries to accomplish this: https://github.com/39aldo39/DecSync
The desktop RSS reader it supports is GTK, though.
Somewhat of a technologically simpler solution might be to self-host FreshRSS.
Unfortunately, it is of course less simple to actually use, unless you have a home server and some sysadmin skills...
this would be great
I'd love this.
everything in there seems decent. not a fan of the "following digital trends" bit, but if anyone actually implements this it probably wont just blindly follow trends
Usually pretty skeptical of titles like this, but everything they mention sounds great.
I would love for KDE connect to offer homescreen widgets. I'd love to make a shortcut to specific commands I've created.
What about controlling the phone from the PC? Like Moto 360 or whatever it's called right now.
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