https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=392164
--- Comment #8 from Will Chen <inbox@willchen.business> ---
(In reply to Gerion from comment #6)
> Hmm, interesting thought. If I get it right, this is always equal on both
> sides, isn't it? I'm really interested in a mode:
> - Share only on request from PC to Smartphone.
> - Share always from Smartphone to PC.
> - (Maybe also: Share always from PC to PC.)
I think I *personally* would probably leave the "Clipboard" plugin disabled and
prefer to use the "Share" plugin even if the former did have such a mode, so as
a single user I suppose I don't agree that there needs to be a separate mode.
Well, Unix philosophy and all that, it just seems like a significant amount of
added complexity for not much gain when the "Share" plugin already does much
the same job.
Because I personally wouldn't use it, I suppose I'm not the best person to
comment on the idea. I do think that having some explicit text sharing
capability is better than having none, though, even if the workflow can be
improved.
> Additionally, what do you think of an extension of the plasmoid?:
> - On the smartphone: Share some text with KDE Connect.
The feature overlap could also create a collision in the UI I think. (Or have I
misunderstood? Is this about Clipboard, or Share?) Currently explicit text
sharing on the smartphone already invokes the "Share" plugin. Would it be
replaced with the "Clipboard" plugin, then? So then will the "Share" plugin's
text feature be exposed at all, or basically just dead code? What if the
"Clipboard" plugin isn't set to that mode, or isn't enabled at all? And
personally I think "Explicit text sharing can be configured in the right
(Clipboard) plugin" would be a subjective UX regression for me from "Explicit
text sharing is available by default with the right (Share) plugin"— That may
be again specific to how I would personally prefer to use KDE Connect though.
Will there be two "KDE Connect" options in the Android sharing menu, one for
the "Share" plugin and one for the "Clipboard" plugin, that do basically the
same thing? — Not unresolvable, but I suppose something that should be thought
about.
> - The plasmoid on the PC pops up, shows: "Text {xy} was shared. How do you
> want to continue: 1. Copy, 2. Open with program 3. Save to file". For the
> open with program, maybe some autorecognition works, which opens URLs with a
> Browser/Gwenview/... where the default is opening with KWrite etc.
Efficiency/steps-wise, I think adding a prompt on PC for what to do would
create mostly the same situation as the current behaviour of popping up KWrite.
You can already Copy/Save/whatever right away as soon as KWrite pops up— I
suppose opening with other programs would be half a step less— Can Gwenview
open web addresses? Or would that only be useful for web browsers?
I do think it would look nicer and make it clearer what's happened though.
> Also, it is possible to share certain part of a text within another app on
> Android? For example some intresting parts of a chat message. On Android, I
> would long press on that, choose the interesting part and press copy.
If I understand this correctly, from the menu that says "Copy", there should
also be/is a "Share" option that lets the text be send to KDE Connect, I think.
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