- KDE CONNECT FOR MAC? UPDATE
- KDE CONNECT FOR MAC? ANDROID
- KDE CONNECT FOR MAC? SOFTWARE
- KDE CONNECT FOR MAC? CODE
KDE CONNECT FOR MAC? UPDATE
Update 20/09/16: This is no longer the latest version of KDE Connect. Just make sure you are using a recent version from F-Droid or the Play Store.
KDE CONNECT FOR MAC? ANDROID
While the Android app is backwards compatible with desktops running old versions of KDE Conect, the just released desktop version requires you to use the version 1.0 or newer of the Android app. Since we have seen that Android updates reach final users much faster than their desktop counterparts, this shouldn’t impact your ability to use KDE Connect.
KDE CONNECT FOR MAC? SOFTWARE
If your favorite Linux distribution doesn’t release an update for KDE Connect 1.0 soon, please contact the distro packagers and let them know you want it! If you are familiar with building software from sources and can’t wait for your distro to package it, you can always build KDE Connect 1.0 from the sources available on.
Like SSH, we do trust-on-first-use (or TOFU, which sounds funnier) of the device certificate, and we have added a command line option to allow you to check the certificate fingerprints match on both ends. This is not only safer against replay and man-in-the-middle attacks, but also faster and less battery-consuming to compute on your devices.
KDE CONNECT FOR MAC? CODE
Thanks to the Google Summer of Code project of Vineet Garg, KDE Connect now uses TLS sockets instead of RSA private-key encryption. From the plugin settings you can choose which notifications you want to forward to your phone and which not. Make sure you enable it both in the Android app and the System Settings module if you are interested in this feature. It might be a bit spammy sometimes, so we decided to ship it disabled by default.
KDE Connect itself began as a GSoC project the year 2013, and since then it accumulates the work of 5 different GSoC students, among many other developers, translators, designers… However, this was the first time I met a student I was mentoring in person! ❤️ However, if I can pick a single thing to highlight from the sprint, it is that I had the chance to meet in person with my Google Summer of Code mentee, Inoki. There we discussed and hacked on many things, and probably Simon’s series of blogposts cover that better than I could do. This time, the people from SUSE hosted us at their offices in the beautiful city of Nuremberg, Germany, together with two other KDE sprints that all happened at the same time! We called it ~The Nuremberg Megasprint~.
This summer, for the second time ever, we organized one for KDE Connect! The hack room In case you don’t know yet, KDE sponsors developer gatherings around the world, “sprints”, to hack for a few days on a specific topic.