T11398: Publish KDE Connect to the Windows Store

[Piyush Aggarwal]

brute4s99 added a comment.


  Hi @Guilhermems , thanks for testing the binary. Could you please go through the ritual another time? The whole desktop app has gotten a style facelift that you'd probably appreciate.
  
  **Test with build #795 or greater.** : https://binary-factory.kde.org/job/kdeconnect-kde_Nightly_win64/
  
  See comments inline:-
  
  > Keyboard and Mouse control: Works
  
  The mouse should be even smoother now, do take a look!
  
  > Media Playback controls + volume: Works partially. It did work the first time, later I tried again (after unpluging my headphones) and it stopped working completely. I used VLC.
  
  VLC Media player is not a good testcase, I'm sure even the media keys don't work well with it if the VLC's app window is not in focus. Try Groove or Firefox.
  
  > Ring phone: Works partially (I had to unlock my phone first. Android app bug?)
  
  Yes, might be a battery optimization thing. Out of scope for the Windows port.
  
  > Send Windows notifications to phone: Didn't work, even after enabling the option on the Android app.
  
  Yes, it's expected. I've disabled the plugin on Windows so it won't show up in the settings on android anymore. Thanks for the catch!
  
  > Control Presentations: Not sure if it works fully since I don't have a office suite installed.
  
  You can test on a slide deck online, or a quick template from google slides. It should work there.
  
  > But on Windows default picture viewer it did "do stuff" when pressing buttons on the app: pressing next and previous buttons made the app leave fullscreen but it didn't do the intended action,
  
  needs more work
  
  > pressing on the pointer button on the app showed a black screen with a glowy blue circle inside I could control with motion.
  
  **Needs Fixing.** 
  I'll have to look into why this happens.. apparently it's quite a common bug with Qt apps on Windows, so it might take a while. As a not-that-great-workaround, click anywhere while the screen is black and the blue halo is visible, it should become transparent.
  
  > Browse device from Windows: It popped up a window asking which app I wanted to select to access a sftp. Windows Explorer wasn't an option and since I have no other app to use I couldn't get it to work.
  
  Windows natively doesn't support SFTP, so if the user has any app that handles sftp:// URLs. it can use the triggered command to access the remote filesystem. A good example is WinSCP.
  
  > Send files from Windows to phone: Didn't work. The app on Android shows a notification saying the operation failed.
  
  **Needs Fixing.**
  It's an os-agnostic bug in kdeconnect. and we're looking into it.
  
  > SMS messaging: It lists messages but as soon as you click on one the SMS app crashes.
  
  I cannot reprod the issue with latest master build.. but in case it shows up, let me know how I can reproduce it in more detail! :D
  
  > Commands: Don't work since they are commands specific to Plasma.
  
  It should work fine if you add some custom commands. To fix the misinformation, I've recently added Windows specific Sample Commands as well. :D
  
  > Pictures and MprisRemote: I don't know how to use it. :|
  
  More fixes will expose the photo plugin soon. mprisremote works but we don't have a nice user-accessible way of making it useful. 
  A WIP kdeconnect-app.exe is also shipped with the setup which has nice support for the plugin GUI.
  
  > Contacts synchronization: I don't know how it works, but the contact folder in Windows had nothing inside.
  
  The latest build should save the contacts in the Contacts folder. Also, these contacts are used in the SMS app.
  
  > Call control: Works and I can also silence it from Windows :D
  
  The pausemusic plugin should also have muted your Windows speakers; it also restores the volume after the call is over.
  
  > Screen saver inhibition: Didn't work, but it's probably not a problem since screensavers are hidden behind the old interface on Windows and most people don't use them for that reason.
  
  It should work, but somehow I wasn't able to trigger a screensaver on my desktop even without KDE Connect running. Also, you might have to enable the plugin from the Configure menu.
  
  > Clipboard from Android to Windows: Doesn't work
  
  It should work on Windows. The clipboard sync for Android to Windows has an extra step on Android 10, the persistent indicator should have a "Send Clipboard" option like so:-
  
  F9932318: image.png <https://phabricator.kde.org/F9932318>
  
  You might want to try the latest APK from the factory to make sure you have it.

TASK DETAIL
  https://phabricator.kde.org/T11398

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