Hi there, I have Kdeconnect paired and connected to my phone with the "find my phone" plugin turned on and the android app working successfully. Both computer and phone are connetced to the same wifi network, and I have been using kdeconnect for it's other plugins (notably showing notifications and being notified when there's a phonecall). I can easily see how to send the phone a ping, but not how to activate "find my phone". I assumed it would be a button like the "send ping" one, or at least a keyboard shortcut outlined in the plugin settings window. No such luck, or at least it's not visible. I'm not sure if this is a code bug, or a UX bug. Either way, I can't find my phone, or any way to activate this.
...and yes, I Googled it, to no avail.
The Find My Phone plugin shouldn't be published yet. Where did you see it, on the phone or on the desktop? Also, are you using your distribution's packages, or compiling kdeconnect yourself (that would explain why you have it :)? When it's ready, it will be in the Plasmoid.
Created attachment 99152 [details] Findmyphone published I'm on Kubuntu 16.04 Xenial using the distro packages (inc Multiverse and Backports). Fairly new install. No compiling at all. I see it in the Kdeconnectkcm as in the picture attached.
Then, there should be two buttons in the top-right corner of the plasmoid, am I right? One will open the file browser and the other will do nothing. The one that does nothing will trigger the "find my phone" feature in a future: we just need to release a new Android app.
Why so there is. I didn't even see / look for that button there before. If I may make a couple of UX suggestions: 1. Rather than what looks like an information "i" icon, I'd suggest either a crosshairs icon (ie circle with four short horizontal / vertical lines intersecting the circle) or better yet, the near universal "location pin" icon (a la Google maps) circular top, pointy bottom. 2. Add a button to activate the feature one the KCM screen I screenshotted, next to "Send ping" and in the infobox that users open by clicking to the right of where the plugin is activated (again on the screenshot). Even if the functionality isn't active yet, as a user, I still had trouble finding the UI elements that were present to activate this feature. That said, I am *thrilled* that this plugin exists. The commercial solutions in this space are terrible and I hate having to give some opaque blob administrator rights over my phone just for this feature. (Yeah, I know, Android itself is still far from 100% FOSS, but why make it worse?). Way back, when you asked about possible future features of Kdeconnect, this is the *only* feature I was desperately hoping would happen, so I'm super excited that it's coming. I just hope that it still works in battery saver mode, or at least warns users to set it to not be optimized if it doesn't (once again, an issue on the current commercial offerings).
As I told you, this feature is not in its final form. However, since Ubuntu is already distributing it for some reason, I'm thinking about releasing it as it is. Note this won't be as feature-complete as dedicated solutions, at least for now. We don't do any gps location detection or something fancy like that, just ringing your phone so you can go and pick it up.