Kfilebox

[SteveRiley]

Steve, is that the one that uses Nautilus as the file manager?

I use the command line method:

$ cd ~ && wget -O - "https://www.dropbox.com/download?plat=lnx.x86_64" | tar xzf -
$ ~/.dropbox-dist/dropboxd

Then to have it automatically start with each boot:
1. System Settings | Startup and Shutdown
2. Autostart page
3. Add Script button
4. Navigate to ~/.dropbox-dist and choose dropboxd

Why remove that file? I've never done that and haven't had any issues I am aware of.

That library file contains basic UI elements. From what I can tell, it doesn't read system themes so it uses a statically-compiled built-in one. When you delete that library, dropboxd will use the system library in /usr/lib/{arch}-linux-gnu, which obeys themes. Now it looks nice and KDE-ish:



Preferences dialog takes on the KDE theme, too.

[oshunluvr]

Ok, thanks Steve - good to know.

[SecretCode]

for general info, I use the nautilus-dropbox package from the repositories and have never needed to use kfilebox. I deleted the file Steve mentioned but in my case it was not in ~/.dropbox-dist but /var/lib/dropbox/.dropbox-dist/libstdc++.so.6

[MarcoPau]

Suddenly dropbox has started working. I apologize for the offtopic, we're talking about official dropbox package instead of kfilebox... Is there any way to obtain the public links directly from dolphin, instead of opening the dropbox webpage?

Thanks

[Teunis]

The public links are web links and that's where you'll have to get them to be of use to others.
Dolphin only shows you the local content on your hard disk.

[SecretCode]

But with the Nautilus and Windows Dropbox clients, you can right-click a dropbox-sync'd file in explorer/nautilus, and get an extra sub-menu that does give you the URL for the file.

I'm not aware whether kfilebox gives you this for Dolphin.

[james147]

The public links are web links and that's where you'll have to get them to be of use to others.
Dolphin only shows you the local content on your hard disk.

But there is a dolphin service menu to allow you to interact (possibly create) the links (I think via the dropbox daemon)

[Wallace]

Kfiledrop 0.4.9 only allows me to install with GTK. Menu is ugly as hell.