Google Summer of Code 2019 ended a couple months ago, not for me though. As I had been stating to my peers time and again, I will not run away with the money I got from Google for the project. When I completed my GSoC 2019 report, the last milestone: Publishing KDE Connect to the Windows Store, was still a far cry, thanks to a really reeeaallly stubborn bug in KNotifications.

So after fighting with the KNotifications bug for months, I have a workaround that works for me.

Consequently, I have released KDE Connect for Windows: Test Release 01 over GitHub about 5 hours ago. Feel free to try it out and I’m open to discuss how it can be further improved. You can reach me through any of the following ways:-

• Reddit post for the release (you can discuss the build with other users here): https://www.reddit.com/r/Windows10/comments/dnfx64/test_release_01_kde_connect_for_windows/
• KDE Connect Devel Group: https://community.kde.org/Telegram#Development
• KDE Connect Mailing List: mailto:kdeconnect@kde.org
• My Personal email ID: (piyushaggarwal002 at gmail dot com)

What’s Working?

This blog post explains everything.

Download Links

• for the .EXE Setup
• for the .Appx Package

How to install.Appx?

For instructions on how to install the .Appx version, go to this blog post.

Supported Windows OS versions

• Windows 10 -> Fully supported and tested by me
• Windows 8, 8.1 -> Not Tested (should work though)
• Windows 7 -> If using Windows 7. disable Notifications plugin or KDE Connect will crash.

A report for my work

The GitHub link for the release

The not-merged-yet code

i am using a patched KDE Frameworks::Tier3::KNotifications in the build: https://github.com/brute4s99/knotifications/pull/1