What's the state of KDEConnect on Windows?

[Simon Redman]

Hi Guilherme,

I would call KDE Connect on Windows "beta quality". It's nearly 
feature-complete but there are some rough patches:
- The KNotifications backend for Windows is mostly there but 
unfortunately still occasionally crashes (for me). This has proven to be 
a sticky problem to fix.
- The SMS App pretty much works, but for some reason it isn't able to 
load contact information (I can see that the KDE Connect contacts sync 
plugin is working and the .vcard files are being correctly written to 
disk, so I guess there's some weird-ness in KPeopleVCard which is 
causing it to look for contacts in a different place than expected)

(I haven't updated my Windows version in quite awhile, so maybe the 
newer versions are better. I know Piyush made some progress on 
KNotifications and I'm not sure if I'm using the version with the latest 
fixes)

I don't think KDE Connect is quite ready for a "big release". It would 
not give users a good first experience if released in the current state.

Piyush is the primary maintainer of KDE Connect on Windows (and has done 
an amazing job getting us this far!). However, in general KDE Connect 
developers haven't have much time available for anything except critical 
fixes.

Thanks,
Simon

On 4/7/21 1:58 PM, Guilherme wrote:
>
> Hi everyone!
>
> I have to ask something: What's the state of KDEConnect on Windows? Is 
> it considered fully stable? Are there any missing features or critical 
> bugs? Is it missing a maintainer? I'm working on this task to bring 
> more KDE apps to Microsoft Store https://phabricator.kde.org/T14122 
> <https://phabricator.kde.org/T14122>and I'd appreciate getting some 
> feedback. Currently I'm checking if apps are in a stable enough state 
> to get published there.
>
> Thanks.
>

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