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by jonas-w 1210 days ago
Perfect! Works great for an alpha release.

Few years ago i had kde and used kde connect, but i didn't want that much qt in my life (can't stand it), and switched to gnome. There was gsconnect but it wasn't that realiable. Used that for a while but in the end i switched to sway, becaus twms are great and everything is so much snappier. But one thing was missing, kdeconnect. I didn't want qt, and gsconnect was a gnome extension. I tried several other alternatives to, but nothing was as good.

2 comments

What's wrong with surrounding yourself with qt?
It's just an opinion, it's subjective:

For example the only qt application i use is wireshark, it looks to me like windows 7, hijacks my input several times when i want to type somewhere else, hovering over menu items at the top is always off for me,...

And GTK seems to work better for me with tiling window managers, as popups are by default not windows (idk what they are), this way if I click on something and a popup or dialog comes up, it stays as a popup or dialog and doesn't take up half of my screen and splits my screen.

GTK isn't perfect, but at least it looks good and is more pleasent to use for me.

I believe the term is "floating windows" when they're above the tiling windows.
Floating windows would be something i need to specifically whitelist in my twm config, thats how i could achieve it with qt, but the gtk popups aren't treated like normal windows from the beginning
I've used kdeconnect under various different systems without ever using KDE (well, not since the Konqueror days so it's been a while). It works just fine under awesome, dwm and whatever two of my coworkers are using (some kind of Gnome desktop as far as I know).