tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33235381874262321122012-02-16T21:12:13.615+01:00trichard's blogThomas Richardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18046034148657925461noreply@blogger.comBlogger11100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3323538187426232112.post-80869260920700893282010-12-21T21:49:00.000+01:002010-12-21T21:57:02.687+01:00Introducing Dropbox integration for DolphinHello all,<br /><div><br /></div><div>About a week ago I was looking for a plugin that integrates Dropbox within the KDE filemanager Dolphin. Seems like this didn't exist yet. The demand for it is pretty high it seems:</div><div><a href="https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=179302">https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=179302</a></div><div><a href="https://www.dropbox.com/votebox/175/dolphin-kde4-qt4-gui-client">https://www.dropbox.com/votebox/175/dolphin-kde4-qt4-gui-client</a></div><div><br /></div><div>That's why I decided to develop <b>dolphin-box-plugin</b> and blog about it. What the plugin currently does is:</div><div><ul><li>Show sync feedback with icon overlays</li><li>Provide custom context menus</li></ul></div><div>As screenshots usually say more then a thousand words: </div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_wl63bIr4Rlw/TREP3Mu_gtI/AAAAAAAAAlw/Oop-RP1KEzA/s1600/dolphin-box-plugin-syncing.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="278" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_wl63bIr4Rlw/TREP3Mu_gtI/AAAAAAAAAlw/Oop-RP1KEzA/s400/dolphin-box-plugin-syncing.png" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_wl63bIr4Rlw/TREP2Fsvi_I/AAAAAAAAAls/GRCYMGUptDw/s1600/dolphin-box-plugin-done.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="282" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_wl63bIr4Rlw/TREP2Fsvi_I/AAAAAAAAAls/GRCYMGUptDw/s400/dolphin-box-plugin-done.png" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_wl63bIr4Rlw/TREQUDoyIKI/AAAAAAAAAl0/cR-Lit8PMxA/s1600/servicemenus.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="297" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_wl63bIr4Rlw/TREQUDoyIKI/AAAAAAAAAl0/cR-Lit8PMxA/s400/servicemenus.png" width="400" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /><br /><br />So how do you get these goodies?</div><div><br /></div><div>Currently you can get the sourcecode at:</div><div><a href="http://gitweb.kde.org/scratch/trichard/dolphin-box-plugin.git">http://gitweb.kde.org/scratch/trichard/dolphin-box-plugin.git</a></div><div><br /></div><div>Or download the (K)Ubuntu 10.10 64bit package (I know, I should create more packages)</div><div><a href="http://dl.dropbox.com/u/9840690/dolphin-box-plugin/dolphin-box-plugin_0.1-1_amd64.deb">http://dl.dropbox.com/u/9840690/dolphin-box-plugin/dolphin-box-plugin_0.1-1_amd64.deb</a></div><div><br /></div><div>After installing the files, either from source or from the deb, you have to enable the plugin by doing the following:</div><div><ul><li>Restart Dolphin</li><li>Settings --> Configure Dolphin --> Services</li><li>Check Dropbox</li><li>Restart Dolphin</li></ul><div>Let me know if you have any problems!</div></div><div><br /></div><div>As they would say it: <span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">Happy syncin'!</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: x-small;">Please note that i'm not affiliated with Dropbox in any way, hence the sucky plugin name.</span></span></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3323538187426232112-8086926092070089328?l=trichard-kde.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Thomas Richardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18046034148657925461noreply@blogger.com38