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by _yy 3723 days ago
It's indeed strange and definitely against the spirit.

There's an excellent open source project which does this and much more: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.kde.kdecon...
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yoodenvranx 3723 days ago
Upvote for mentioning KDE Connect!

My favorite things about KDE Connect:

1) shared clipboard between mobile and PC

2) "send file to phone" - context menu in Dolphin / "send file to PC" in Android to quickly exchange single files

3) browse the whole Android file system (and copy/delete/edit files) directly from your file manager in Linux

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pkd 3723 days ago
KDEConnect pulls the whole KDE dependencies with it which I do not want while using Unity. That is the only thing that is stopping me from using it. Pushbullet works well for now.
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Crespyl 3723 days ago
KDE has split up most of the libraries over the last few releases, so the situation's much improved now.

KDEConnect still pulls in a few dependencies, but it's not 300MB anymore.

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_yy 3723 days ago
Sure, but, meh. A few dozen RAW picture files take more space.

Storage is cheap nowadays and KDE applications generally are of such high quality that it's definitely worth it.

Other examples are Digikam (hands-down the best picture organizer) and Krita (which rivals Photoshop for digital artists).

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