Dropbox on Linux/KDE without Gnome/GTK+ stuff

This is a guide for how to set up dropbox under (linux) KDE4, without having to install nautilus and other Gnome/GTK+ dependencies to bloat your system, by running the Dropbox daemon. It’s not a perfect KDE4 integration by any means, but it will show you the tray icon and seameslly syncronize your ~/Dropbox folder.

Just gnomes...

1. Get the source Linux files:

• for 32 bit
• for 64 bit

2.  Extract the files in your home directory

Extract files to your home folder

3. Go to “System Settings”

Press Alt + F2 for Krunner launcher and type in "System settings"

4. Go to “Advanced/Autostart”

Go to "Advanced/Autostart"

5. Click “Add Script…” and paste this path “/home/username/.dropbox-dist/dropboxd” into the dialog box, make sure you change “username” with your own, then click “OK”.

Add Script...

6. When you log into your session again, the Dropbox icon will appear in your tray.

Dropbox daemon running.

Enjoy sharing files across different computers with your buddies!

This stuff is so awesome that as you can see, it even determined me to blog about it. Play some awesome music, hold tight in your chair and watch this:

Here are a few points

• you can click on empty space to launch new apps
• only close buttons on windows
• color coded windows
• window headers don’t overlap, so no need for a panel to list all open windows
• maximizing a window makes the panel blend in nicely with the window
• very cool way of minimizing applications or move them to other workspaces
• easy to look behind maximized windows
• nicely animated
• damn intuitive
• low learning curve
• a pleasure to use for sure!

Keep in mind this is only a mockup, but should be doable with compiz more or less.

I really hope GNOME3 will look like that, or that KDE4 will have a setup like that… OR… even see something built from scratch, as long as it does the job.

Fav it, rate it, share it, comment it; you can also find it on Gnome-look.org

Hope you enjoy it as much as I do!