It's indeed strange and definitely against the spirit. There's an excellent open...

yoodenvranx · on April 4, 2016

Upvote for mentioning KDE Connect!

My favorite things about KDE Connect:

1) shared clipboard between mobile and PC

2) "send file to phone" - context menu in Dolphin / "send file to PC" in Android to quickly exchange single files

3) browse the whole Android file system (and copy/delete/edit files) directly from your file manager in Linux

pkd · on April 4, 2016

KDEConnect pulls the whole KDE dependencies with it which I do not want while using Unity. That is the only thing that is stopping me from using it. Pushbullet works well for now.

Crespyl · on April 4, 2016

KDE has split up most of the libraries over the last few releases, so the situation's much improved now.

KDEConnect still pulls in a few dependencies, but it's not 300MB anymore.

_yy · on April 4, 2016

Sure, but, meh. A few dozen RAW picture files take more space.

Storage is cheap nowadays and KDE applications generally are of such high quality that it's definitely worth it.

Other examples are Digikam (hands-down the best picture organizer) and Krita (which rivals Photoshop for digital artists).