[HN Gopher] KDE Connect Now Available on iOS
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       KDE Connect Now Available on iOS
        
       Author : emilsedgh
       Score  : 66 points
       Date   : 2022-05-14 21:24 UTC (1 hours ago)
        
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 (TXT) w3m dump (apps.apple.com)
        
       | soheil wrote:
       | > Remote presentation remote: control a laser pointer on the
       | screen of your computer by moving your phone around.
       | 
       | How does it detect the phone movement and its relative position?
        
         | [deleted]
        
         | makeworld wrote:
         | I've used this feature. When you click the pointer button, the
         | "laser pointer" overlay appears in the middle of your screen.
         | When you rotate your phone, it moves on the screen, presumably
         | detecting using the gyroscope. So the way it works is by
         | assuming you are pointing at the center of the screen when you
         | first click (and then hold) the pointer button. It's not a bad
         | assumption, it my experience it works pretty well.
        
       | rascul wrote:
       | I don't have much use for KDE Connect currently but I've used it
       | in the past. It can be quite handy. It was very useful for
       | replying to text messages when my phone wasn't around, for
       | example.
       | 
       | I do like to see KDE software propagating outside of the KDE
       | world (KHTML is a great example of that).
        
         | hsbauauvhabzb wrote:
         | I don't see this function in the App Store app, I'd love to use
         | my phone remotely, is this possible without a max device?
        
       | anyfoo wrote:
       | I hope this supports Shortcuts, that would make it even more
       | awesome.
       | 
       | I have Shortcuts on my iPhone that issue commands over ssh and
       | perform HTTP uploads and requests (works out of the box on both
       | iOS and macOS), but if I could send e.g. results to a non-Airdrop
       | desktop or would be even better.
        
       | nabla9 wrote:
       | I have been using it few days. Promising but not there yet.
       | 
       | It loses connection after short time, don't get it back, makes it
       | unusable after while. You can move only few images/files at the
       | time or it hangs. Had some discoverability issues.
       | 
       | It has many cool features, but it's still alpha quality.
        
       | zikohh wrote:
       | Had used it on Windows. The functionality is good. Quite buggy
       | though.
        
       | starik36 wrote:
       | Very nicely done. I can see that it's the first version and there
       | are some discoverability issues. But the functionality is great!
       | 
       | My wish list would be to add the app to the Share sheet when
       | sharing a photo. And on the other side (Windows in my case), it
       | would be nice to have an indicator that the file has arrived.
        
       | jeroenhd wrote:
       | I recommend this to all iOS users that are also on Linux (or run
       | KDE Connect on Windows) because KDE Connect is an awesome piece
       | of software.
       | 
       | I do find it interesting that they've published a GPLv3
       | application in Apple's App Store, though. I recall the App Store
       | and GPLv3 not going together well, though I must admit that I
       | never cared enough to read into the details.
        
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