Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (1483 mails)

[Billie Walsh <bilwalsh@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On 02/14/2012 01:15 AM, George Olson wrote:
> On 02/14/2012 02:24 PM, Rodney Baker wrote:
> > On Tue, 14 Feb 2012 15:31:44 Rodney Baker wrote:
> > > On Tue, 14 Feb 2012 00:25:07 Billie Walsh wrote:
> > > > I've been googling for hours and can't get this one figured out. I'm no
> > > > purist. If there's a piece of software that works well and the way I
> > > > want it I don't care if it's KDE or Gnome.
> > > >
> > > > I'm trying to get Dropbox installed. Following instruction on two or
> > > > three different pages I thought I had everything downloaded and
> > > > ready to
> > > > install. There still seems to be some Nautilus dependencies that I just
> > > > can't seem to resolve. I had the idea of adding the gnome repositories.
> > > > Loads of links to openSUSE gnome repositories but not the standard
> > > > repos
> > > > that are in the regular Gnome installation. Is there some simple way to
> > > > just add the standard Gnome repos to the list?
> > >
> > > Billie,
> > >
> > > Search for kfilebox - it is a kde dropbox front end. When I installed it
> > > and first ran it it automatically downloaded and started the dropbox
> > > daemon and then ran the dropbox account setup. Completely painless.
> > >
> > > HTH.
> > > Rodney.
> >
> > Just had a play with it - works well. It integrates directly with
> > Dolphin. A
> > couple of hints; when you first run it, it installs the Dropbox daemon
> > (as I
> > mentioned) and starts the apparently Java-based dropbox interface to set
> > up/link to your dropbox account.
> >
> > You need to start kfilebox again to get the kfilebox icon in the
> > systemtray
> > and the dolphin integration working (at least, I did anyway). You can
> > then
> > right click on the other dropbox icon and select "Quit Dropbox" to get
> > rid of
> > it from the system tray. THIS WILL kill the dropbox daemon - then
> > right-click
> > on the kfilebox icon in systray and select "Start Dropbox".
> >
> > You should now have full dropbox integration with dolphin, including the
> > right-click context menus. You will also need to right-click on the
> > kfilebox
> > icon again, select Preferences and set the dropbox folder location
> > (which by
> > default will have been installed to /home/<your_user>/Dropbox unless
> > you've
> > told it to go somwhere else durign the install). This way, when you
> > left-click
> > on the kfilebox systray icon, Dolphin (or your chosen file manager)
> > will open
> > in the Dropbox folder.
> >
> > Regards,
> > Rodney.
>
> This worked for me too on another computer. The only difference is that
> after I had kfilebox running, it was redundant, as my dropbox was fully
> integrated into dolphin and the system tray. So I then uninstalled
> kfilebox afterwards, and dropbox continues to run without a problem.
>
> George

Getting kind of long but I left it all there anyway.

Did you find kfilebox in Yast or ............?

Yast, Appers and File Search [webpin] can't seem to find their arse with 
both hands, or either hand. File Search keeps coming back with a 404 
error for everything. Yast just says "Not Found".

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