What will happen?
KDE Connect is nowadays on a sweet moment where many things can happen. This is an interesting moment to sprint, because it will allow all of us to work together on interesting features that can then be merged at once with greater impact.
The things that are the most important to me are:
- The Plasma Phone port. See more below.
- Improvements on the Plasma Desktop integration. Currently it’s a bit weird. It mostly works, but then it’s currently lacking any interaction with the remote devices. We should review what it does and what can we do to offer what the user actually needs.
- Using the phone (or any other device) to transparently provide data to the desktop system. We have many interesting listed ideas. Use the phone to provide location, the phone’s microphone and camera, etc.
- File system synchronization
What will I do?
One of the things I’ve been working on lately is a new KDE Connect client. Initially with the Plasma Phone in mind, this new application opens a new window of opportunity also on other platforms. First of all, it should be right away usable on Jolla (when they adopt a saner set of dependencies) and the Ubuntu Phone.
From our point of view, one of the biggest problems of KDE Connect is that we have a hard time to pivot over to other deskop-based platforms, mostly because our desktop approach so far is a plasmoid, which isn’t very portable. Having a standalone application will help as well to reach such platforms as well.
Another thing I’d like to work on further is KDE software integration on Android. Things should be set by now, but we need work to shape the path further. Things like setting up the KDE Frameworks 5 CI for Android for example will be a huge step forward. Also building some other application for Android, will help us get a better overview of the current state.
Support us!
All of this will happen in the next KDE Connect sprint within the Randa Meetings. If you like KDE Connect and wish it to bloom into the tool we’re all looking forward to, consider donating!
I believe that a nice feature would be get a Desktop screenshot transfered to Android Client.
Would be possible to control the desktop from other room.
Anyway, thank you for the good work!
Bluetooth connectivity?
Any willingness Sailfish OS porting? Will supporting by donates help on the matter?
@Kyle somebody is working on it, not on the sprint though. :/
@Kalle donations always help, although we don’t have any Jolla device available so it’s hard to come up with a final solution. It’s really close, the plasma mobile app should just work over there, we just need somebody to put it together and test it on the device.