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What is your favourite open source software that you discovered in the past year, that you can no longer live without? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Mine is Local Send which is a FOSS alternative similar to air drop that works across a variety of devices.

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[–] [email protected] 127 points 2 months ago (4 children)

Mine is kdeconnect which does what local send does plus so much more.

using phone to control laptop
getting phone notifications send to your pc
can browse phone's storage directly from pc
find my phone function

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (3 children)

Kde connect is great, iv always thought about using it but never got round to it as im current using a wm instead of a desktop environment. If i was to switch to a desktop environment kde would be my first choice as it has so many features.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I have kdeconnect on my i3wm.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago

Iv never tried it on my wm. Ill dow load it and give it a shot.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

I tried the iOS beta until it expired. Didn't know it ever made it to the app store.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

It used to be considered a security risk back in the day. Maybe it just a security "unknown"

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I've had issues with it for file sharing, so far that I'm sticking to LocalSend, but I really need to explore KDEConnect further, as I haven't explored the rest of its features.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Wait kdeconnect is Foss?! Can I fix the atrocious gui myself?!? 😂

That application rules but it looks like butt on my workstation.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

May I suggest valent?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I'm sure they'd welcome a pull improving the UX! https://invent.kde.org/network/kdeconnect-kde I think the implementation of the protocol is pretty well isolated from the UI, so pretty radical UI changes should be relatively easy

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

I just may...

Yeah no complaints on functionality! It's great!

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

GSConnect works great for GNOME too.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

There's also a still in-development rival for GNOME, Valent. And it's a native program and not just a shell extension. I prefer it, and maybe it even has more features.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

I found it to be more than I needed. I still have it installed, but use localsend more often