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KDE Connect: Enabling communication between all your devices

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475 points snthd | 5 comments | 12 Oct 25 12:04 UTC | HN request time: 0.227s | source
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mid-kid ◴[14 Oct 25 14:20 UTC] No.45580349[source]▶
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.

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throawayonthe ◴[21 Oct 25 12:22 UTC] No.45654926[source]▶
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)

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1. account42 ◴[21 Oct 25 14:40 UTC] No.45656414[source]▶
> the DE has been called Plasma for ages

I disagree.

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2. r14c ◴[21 Oct 25 14:49 UTC] No.45656528[source]▶
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.
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4. o11c ◴[22 Oct 25 05:23 UTC] No.45665156[source]▶
KDE 4.4ish (early 2010) was when it finally started to become stable enough to be mostly usable, so that's close enough to just saying "KDE 4".

Unfortunately it's looking like KDE 6 is going to be another catastrophic upgrade, unlike KDE 5 which I barely noticed. Both of my Debian bookworm->trixie upgrades had showstopper bugs that required the terminal to fix KDE, there is multi-second lag unless you turn off some of the new features, and significant uninvestigated breakage remains even after that.

"Plasma [i]s Hell" is well-named, not that it's the only problem.

5. Squarex ◴[22 Oct 25 06:01 UTC] No.45665371[source]▶
Yes, but all the people who use it still call it KDE. At least in my experience.