14th October 2016, 9:57
Dolphin [which is fantastic] is fine for transferring simple files between phone & pc, but no help for SMS messages, Contacts & Call Logs. I am not saying that Qlix can do any of those; that's exactly why i wanted to test it to see if it was useful to me.
FYI, there's a bigger back-story here. Ever since i made Linux my full-time OS, in 2014, after a "lifetime" in Windows, i've been able to progressively find good or excellent replacements in Linux for all my important Windows pgms... with one glaring exception. I've still not found anything better than MyPhoneExplorer for my Android phone, but sadly MPE is only a Windows pgm. It works really well in Windows, but the only way [of which i'm aware] to run it in Linux is with Wine, or in PlayOnLinux [which of course is basically Wine with lipstick & mascara]. Approx. a week ago i did manage to get MPE installed & setup in PoL, & it kinda sorta worked, but also had various difficulties & problems. That experiment also occurred when i was still having all those terrible Plasmashell/KWin failures, before i learned to downgrade the NVidia driver which fixed everything. Back then, each time i ran PoL & MPE within it, it kept entirely crippling Maui, such that i had to keep rebooting to recover. I would like to believe that this was 100% the fault of that bad driver, & that now i have the good driver PoL would be fine. I have not yet summoned the courage to retest it.
If i could find a viable Linux native pgm that would connect with my Android phone, & with a good GUI client for synchronising the phone's SMS messages, Contacts & Call Logs, such that i can later / anytime access the PC copy of my phone's records in functional appearance [eg, SMS in conversation format, like MPE does], then i would not need MPE or PoL, nor would i need to occasionally keep launching my Win10 VM just to use MPE there [i just hate having to keep touching Windows now]. I just don't understand why there seems to be no, or no good, GNU pgm with this obviously-needed functionality, for Linux. So, that's why i wanted to test Qlix, as part of my ongoing quest for a decent Linux Android phone client package.
FYI, there's a bigger back-story here. Ever since i made Linux my full-time OS, in 2014, after a "lifetime" in Windows, i've been able to progressively find good or excellent replacements in Linux for all my important Windows pgms... with one glaring exception. I've still not found anything better than MyPhoneExplorer for my Android phone, but sadly MPE is only a Windows pgm. It works really well in Windows, but the only way [of which i'm aware] to run it in Linux is with Wine, or in PlayOnLinux [which of course is basically Wine with lipstick & mascara]. Approx. a week ago i did manage to get MPE installed & setup in PoL, & it kinda sorta worked, but also had various difficulties & problems. That experiment also occurred when i was still having all those terrible Plasmashell/KWin failures, before i learned to downgrade the NVidia driver which fixed everything. Back then, each time i ran PoL & MPE within it, it kept entirely crippling Maui, such that i had to keep rebooting to recover. I would like to believe that this was 100% the fault of that bad driver, & that now i have the good driver PoL would be fine. I have not yet summoned the courage to retest it.
If i could find a viable Linux native pgm that would connect with my Android phone, & with a good GUI client for synchronising the phone's SMS messages, Contacts & Call Logs, such that i can later / anytime access the PC copy of my phone's records in functional appearance [eg, SMS in conversation format, like MPE does], then i would not need MPE or PoL, nor would i need to occasionally keep launching my Win10 VM just to use MPE there [i just hate having to keep touching Windows now]. I just don't understand why there seems to be no, or no good, GNU pgm with this obviously-needed functionality, for Linux. So, that's why i wanted to test Qlix, as part of my ongoing quest for a decent Linux Android phone client package.