|
| 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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