In a similar vein, I am not on Gnome or KDE but have been using the basic kdeconnect functionality, such as sharing clipboard and transferring files, through kdeconnect-cli quite happily. It comes with the standard kdeconnect installation I believe.
still, on my xubuntu system
sudo apt install kdeconnect --no-install-recommends
wants to install 101 packages :(
https://github.com/andyholmes/gnome-shell-extension-gsconnec...