How to get Dropbox Integration on KDE.

[anchorschmidt]

How to get Dropbox Integration for KDE

[timeth]

Hey anchorschmidt,

Thanks for the video. I would love to have Dropbox integration for KDE and I followed your tutorial but it didn't work for me. The Dropbox entry doesn't show up in my context menu after I install the plugin. Do you have any ideas I can try?

[daniel]

in your /home/<user>/.kde4/share/kde4/services/ServiceMenus/ should be a dropbox.desktop file.
And in your dropbox a dropbox.py. Is there this files, so should the servicemenu go...

[anchorschmidt]

Thanks for the video. I would love to have Dropbox integration for KDE and I followed your tutorial but it didn't work for me. The Dropbox entry doesn't show up in my context menu after I install the plugin. Do you have any ideas I can try?

That's interesting. Which KDE release are you using? Did you try to install two services at once from the manager? does it still show as "installed" when you search for it again?

[menotu]

I've tried the Dropbox ones a few times in the past and they always show up in my context menu but alas none of the options ever seem to work.

The Root Actions service always works well though

[daniel]

for a long time under kde4, and now with a little trick under LXDE.
When the dropbox.py is store in the Dropbox folder, so use with little command

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python ~/Dropbox/dropbox.py puburl %f | zenity --text-info --title "%f" --width=680 --height=100
for me works...



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If you need this files, so i can send it up...

[genomega]

This is what I had to do:

cd /home/yourname/.kde4/share/apps/servicemenu-download/115336-dropbox-servicemenu-kde_0.2.tar.gz-dir/dropbox-servicemenu-kde/

chmod 755 install.sh

./install.sh

This will download and install what you need from www.dropbox.com

[AndrzejL]

Hey anchorschmidt,

Thanks for the video. I would love to have Dropbox integration for KDE and I followed your tutorial but it didn't work for me. The Dropbox entry doesn't show up in my context menu after I install the plugin. Do you have any ideas I can try?

+1 !

This is what I had to do:

cd /home/yourname/.kde4/share/apps/servicemenu-download/115336-dropbox-servicemenu-kde_0.2.tar.gz-dir/dropbox-servicemenu-kde/

chmod 755 install.sh

./install.sh

This will download and install what you need from www.dropbox.com

Now thats the solution that worked for me but I got there myself !

I followed Leiche's advice and i checked the folder

[andrzejl@WISHMACER ~]$ cd ~/.kde4/share/kde4/services/ServiceMenus/
bash: cd: /home/andrzejl/.kde4/share/kde4/services/ServiceMenus/: No such file or directory

It didn't even existed. So I ran this:

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mkdir -p ~/.kde4/share/kde4/services/ServiceMenus/
and then decided to reinstall the service - I was thinking... Maybe if I created folder that it needs it will install no problem.

When was trying to reinstall the service I got very helpful clue:

This told me where the installer was downloading its file...

Using konsole / mc I opened this location. Unpacked the tar.gz file and ran install.sh file - it was already executable so there was no need to chmod it here.

[andrzejl@WISHMACER servicemenu-download]$ mc

[andrzejl@WISHMACER DropboxServiceMenu-0.14.3]$ ./install-it.sh

After that:

[andrzejl@WISHMACER DropboxServiceMenu-0.14.3]$ cd ~/.kde4/share/kde4/services/ServiceMenus/
[andrzejl@WISHMACER ServiceMenus]$ ls
dropbox_all.desktop  dropbox_directories.desktop  dropbox_files.desktop  dropbox-scripts/
[andrzejl@WISHMACER ServiceMenus]$

and it all works as expected now...

Thanks Dudes!

Andy

[Was_Just19]

Hi,
       Just installed Dropbox and have it set up so want to extend it a bit with these service menu functions.

I noticed that there are two separate downloads, and in the posts above I note that different people use either.

So before I install one of these I would like to know which is working the better.
One I see is only 1.6Kb while the other is 45.8Kb .....  there being a huge difference is size I guess there must be a huge difference in functionality.

Anyone care to enlighten me?

Thanks   

[Old-Polack]

Hi,
       Just installed Dropbox and have it set up so want to extend it a bit with these service menu functions.

I noticed that there are two separate downloads, and in the posts above I note that different people use either.

So before I install one of these I would like to know which is working the better.
One I see is only 1.6Kb while the other is 45.8Kb .....  there being a huge difference is size I guess there must be a huge difference in functionality.

Anyone care to enlighten me?

Thanks   

I installed both, and get these menu additions;

[Was_Just19]

I downloaded both, - one seems to have the associated packages with it, and the other seems to download them during install. So I am wondering if they are near ebough the same thing.

Do you have two sets of Dropbox options in the righ-click drop down list?

I installed the larger one here. I do not have these two entries

Copy Public URL to Klipper
Get Public URL

It seems like at least one of those is a duplicate.

Looks like I am covered with using just the one I have installed.

Thanks.

regards.

[dejan034]

http://cristalinux.blogspot.com/2010/11/install-dropbox-on-kde-desktops.html

[Old-Polack]

http://cristalinux.blogspot.com/2010/11/install-dropbox-on-kde-desktops.html

We just install dropbox with Synaptic, from our repository mirrors.

[Texstar]

http://cristalinux.blogspot.com/2010/11/install-dropbox-on-kde-desktops.html

We just install dropbox with Synaptic, from our repository mirrors.

Yeh. Works great. Just open your file manager and copy whatever you want into the public folder for sharing.

[menotu]

Yeh. Works great

Yup - first class storage site and so very easy to use.