I will publish an insights post later this week covering all the things we’d like to get done in the Cosmic cycle, but I wanted to get the conversation kicked off about this one right away.
I’ve briefly spoken to Andy Holmes the upstream developer to see how he’d feel about this, and he’s +1 on the idea.
I’d love for this to work in the same way as we did with Ubuntu Dock & Dash-to-Dock (https://github.com/micheleg/dash-to-dock/tree/ubuntu-do) where we have a branch in the upstream project rather than forking. Andy is happy for us to work in that way and we’ll be able to contribute fixes etc directly to the upstream project.
@3v1n0 has volunteered for this work from the Desktop team.
Is there anyone else in the community who’d like to help work on this too?
I’m really excited to see this land as a feature of Ubuntu. KDE Connect is a really useful tool, if you haven’t played with it it’s worth checking out. The latest version of GS Connect works fine in Bionic.
Maybe someone would be interested in porting the phone side app to iOS?
Great idea and a very useful addition to 18.10. Am not a developer, but happy to help with testing/bug reporting (and brainstorming new features, etc.)
Great idea, I love it. Been using KDE Connect since finding out about it, and also tried out MConnect. Both worked great. Not test out GS Connect on Bionic, and so far it is great. Works well, and keeps me up-to-date. I do have a few Android phones that I have access to, and would help out in testing. I also have an iPhone, and if there is an iPhone app made available in the future I would like help test that one as well.
A note for @3v1n0: as we now have a distro patch to force loading extensions from the system using for extensions mode, we aren’t forced to fork the ID anymore if no changes in user experience are required and directly use the upstream version.