You Can Now Easily Send/Receive SMS Messages From The KDE Desktop
A long-standing KDE initiative that hasn't received as much attention as it deserves is KDE Connect for allowing KDE to interface with other devices -- namely smartphones -- for being able to display phone notifications on your desktop and more. A new KDE Plasmoid makes it easy now to send/receive SMS text messages.
The KDEConnect SMS Sender Plasmoid has now been uploaded to the KDE Store. This KDE Plasmoid/widget allows easily sending/receiving from your desktop when paired with a supported device.
Besides being in the KDE Store, there's also a PPA for Ubuntu 17.10/18.04 to easily use this widget too.
Here's a demo of the tool by its developer David Diverres:
More details via this blog post and the code for it is hosted on GitHub.
The KDEConnect SMS Sender Plasmoid has now been uploaded to the KDE Store. This KDE Plasmoid/widget allows easily sending/receiving from your desktop when paired with a supported device.
Besides being in the KDE Store, there's also a PPA for Ubuntu 17.10/18.04 to easily use this widget too.
Here's a demo of the tool by its developer David Diverres:
More details via this blog post and the code for it is hosted on GitHub.
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