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KDE Connect: Enabling communication between all your devices

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475 points snthd | 1 comments | 12 Oct 25 12:04 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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Kim_Bruning ◴[12 Oct 25 19:37 UTC] No.45561136[source]▶
This is a killer app. There have been times when I asked someone "why can't you just send me a screenshot on signal" or "Oh, can't you copy the URL to your desktop?"... only to realize that the poor fellow didn't have KDE connect (yet).

It's not perfect, but it does things I haven't found anywhere else, makes your phone and laptop and pc.

It might help that I'm actually running KDE everywhere, of course.

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maqnius ◴[21 Oct 25 14:48 UTC] No.45656509[source]▶
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.

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1. pmontra ◴[21 Oct 25 16:25 UTC] No.45657740[source]▶
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.