[HN Gopher] KDE Connect Now Available on iOS ___________________________________________________________________ KDE Connect Now Available on iOS Author : emilsedgh Score : 66 points Date : 2022-05-14 21:24 UTC (1 hours ago) (HTM) web link (apps.apple.com) (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. ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2022-05-14 23:00 UTC)