Browse files without KDE

[Andy Holmes]

Assuming you use some Gtk applications, I would first install d-feet
<https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/DFeet> which is a graphical browser for DBus.
You can find kdeconnect in the "Session" tab using the search, and probably
figure the rest about devices by poking around (there's no danger in
breaking anything, so have explore and have fun).

Once you've done that, you should be able to use the gdbus
<https://developer.gnome.org/gio/stable/gdbus.html> command to activate the
DBus method (which I think is called 'startBrowsing()' or something) in the
SFTP interface of your device. Test that out in a terminal and you should
be able to make a simple launcher or shell script that works for you.

I believe KDE Connect mounts the filesystem under
/run/user/<uid>/<device-id> so you may want to add that to your bookmarks
in whichever file browser you use.

If you're primarily using Qt/KDE apps, I believe there is 'qtdbus' in place
of 'gdbus' and probably an alternative to d-feet as well.

That should be enough to get you started, feel free to ask more if you need
some help. If you get a nice little script going for i3, consider sharing
it; it may be of use to others on other non-Gnome/non-KDE environments.

On Thu, Apr 26, 2018 at 12:26 AM, Nicolas Cedilnik <nicoco at rape.lol> wrote:

> Thanks for your answer.
>
> You could use, for example, indicator-kdeconnect which should
>> work on any desktop with Gtk
>>
> Unfortunately I (happily) use i3, and the _system tray_ is apparently not
> the same thing as _appindicator_, so indicator-kdeconnect icon doesn't show
> up in it. I may be wrong about this, I'm still investigating it…
>
>> or use the DBus interface to make the request
>>
> This sounds nice, and I always wanted to know a little more about dbus. Is
> there any documentation or examples on how to do that ? I couldn't find any.
>
> Cheers,
>
> -- Nicolas
>
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