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KDE Connect: Enabling communication between all your devices

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475 points snthd | 4 comments | 12 Oct 25 12:04 UTC | HN request time: 0.631s | 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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ahakki ◴[21 Oct 25 12:38 UTC] No.45655042[source]▶
they should rebrand it as Konnekt.
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1. groovybits ◴[21 Oct 25 15:15 UTC] No.45656870[source]▶
Legacy KDE apps used to follow this naming convention until the late 2000s, early 2010s.

You had apps like Konqueror (web browser, file manager), KMail (email client), Kompose (music score editor), KImages (later rebranded to Krita), and KDevelop (software dev IDE).

Modern KDE apps dropped the 'K' prefix and moved to a more recognizable scheme, like: Falkon (web browser), Dolphin (file manager), and Okular (document viewer).

As you can see, its now a mix of whether the app keeps the 'K' in the name. Some do not.

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2. CaptainOfCoit ◴[21 Oct 25 15:36 UTC] No.45657105[source]▶
> Legacy KDE apps used to follow this naming convention until the late 2000s, early 2010s.

Wow, what a coincident that parent just happened to suggest the identical naming convention. What are the chances?

3. vasvir ◴[22 Oct 25 07:22 UTC] No.45665843[source]▶
Also spectacle for screenhshots... It took me a while to not try find kscreenshot
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4. cjmoran ◴[24 Oct 25 14:36 UTC] No.45695084[source]▶
Spectacle pops up as the first result in KDE's app launcher when I start typing "snipping tool." Props to whomever decided to add that alias.

Zero props to whomever decided that punctuation from the outer sentence should be injected inside quotation marks.