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KDE Connect: An app for iOS, android, pretty much every flavor of linux, windows, etc. that lets you connect any devices together to share files, show notifications of other devices, use your phone as an input device(keyboard, mouse), control multimedia applications(start, play, stop, etc.), trigger commands, and everything else if you make a plugin for it.
The next level i kinda wish it had (because it already has about everything else) would be to have the phone screen shown in the desktop.
I wish I could send a whole folder of files at once with this, mine seems to only work one file at a time.
The craziest thing I discovered when I started using it was when I noticed that because my desktop was now connected to my phone and my phone was connected to my watch, I could completely control the media on both from my watch and the integration felt natural - but also something I haven’t seen work that well in the proprietary world.
This might read as a stupid question but ; Do you have to use KDE Plasma as a DE for it to work ?
It even works on windows
no! there is GSConnect which is a gnome extension that provides the protocol as well
Ty !
No, it works on other setups too! I have used the regular kde connect app with enlightenment DE for example.
I use it on Fedora with GNOME. Its available as a GNOME extension
Nice !