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by isthisfoss 1129 days ago
Does GNOME have a similar feature? I am not a big fan of how busy KDE is.
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smoldesu 1129 days ago
GSConnect was a rewrite for the GNOME shell, but I think it's been 'depreciated' in favor of Valent. You can try both and see which you prefer:

GSConnect: https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/1319/gsconnect/

Valent: https://valent.andyholmes.ca/

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freedomben 1129 days ago
Have you used Valent? Is it fairly feature comparable to KDE Connect? I use real KDE Connect on Gnome but it's pretty clumsy
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commoner 1128 days ago
I haven't used Valent (since there's no stable release yet), but I can vouch for GSConnect. It's a feature-complete KDE Connect client that seamlessly integrates into GNOME Shell as an extension.
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jacooper 1128 days ago
Its not deprecated, both are still supported
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kadoban 1129 days ago
You should be able to use KDE Connect without the rest of KDE. I don't know how heavy the deps are, but it should really just be disk space wasted mostly.
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unstuck3958 1129 days ago
KDE Connect is not restricted to KDE Plasma. It's an app, so it is available for Windows, Linux, and even iOS.
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