I have the Librem 5 and a Librem 14. I’d like to see more integration with Librem products. For example, I’d like to transfer files easily between my computer and phone simply by plugging in a cable.
I’d also like to see a Librem Cloud option that would allow me to backup files from all of my Librem devices.
Perhaps to do these things, Librem-specific apps would need to be created.
Fair suggestions. All achievable today with enough work (and nothing too specific to PureOS) but … as always, you would need to consider the security implications very carefully.
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As an example of “security implications” … no cloud storage provider should want even the tiniest possibility that they can examine anything about files that you backup to the cloud … not the name, not the length, not any other metadata, not a hash of the content, and of course not the content, not even traffic data beyond the unavoidable. Of course it might be that you don’t care about any of that but some other customers will care and the provider also probably will care.
Thank you for providing this information to me to consider. I was only thinking about cloud storage as a way of backing up personal photos of my ancestors. But as you have mentioned, it can also have many security implications. I was only thinking of ways that the Librem series of products could be more user friendly for us less technically advanced users.
I am not familiar with Warp.
See also: Getting photos off the Librem 5 (I see you’ve already posted there, but there are some easy wireless options in the thread that you might want to try.)
You might consider KDE Connect. It is a way for a phone to communicate with a desktop. It sends phone notifications to the desktop and share files between them over Wi-Fi.
In GNOME Desktop you can use the extension GS Connect.
From what I have heard in Plasma Mobile there is an app that will communicate with the desktop. I don’t know what dependencies or anything you would need to get it to work in PureOS phosh though.
I don’t think so. IIRC, KDE Connect has a Linux desktop app and an Android only phone app. If you run the desktop version on the L5, you can only share with a Spydroid.
Indeed, the desktop version would. But I remember seeing a video somewhere that mentioned KDE Connect “phone” version functioning in Plasma Mobile.
I can’t recall the exact video but I found a screenshot on the Plasma Mobile page on KDE’s website that shows it as installed.
Ooh… very nice! I want to check it out. I would like a GTK version, as well – the Gnome aesthetic looks so good on the L5.
Wow! Fascinating…
Laurels:
I was able to change L5 brightness, volume and multimedia from my Pinebook Pro running Armbian. I could not type this text from the laptop.
I was able to type into a console on the laptop from the L5.
Darts:
Lots of things didn’t work, but that just might be my ignorance on how to operate KDE Connect.
TONS of KDE libraries and dependencies!
Conclusion:
I’ll keep it around for now, but I will also check out Valent – a GTK based KDE Connect protocol implementation. It is rumored on Linux Uprising that Valent might support Phosh… so we should check it out!
