Just tested with Version 0.6.567, and the tray icon is working in KDE4.

Great Tip!

I’m hoping they support other file managers eventually like PcmanFM (my personal choice), Thunar, and Dolphin. Oh well, for me I didn’t need very many dependencies for nautilus anyways (I use Arch and don’t have much, if any, other Gnome stuff installed, but only needed like 6 dependencies).

Thanks for the tip, Luke. With a few adjustments, I just got Dropbox to work on my old “0$ laptop” running Puppy Linux! (using JWM).

thanks for the tip!

While I didn’t loose any data, I recently suffered from major hardware failure and having something such as dropbox would have made things easier

I guess I’ve been living under a rock for the last two months… This is awesome though, just what I need. And I’m glad you posted this solution, since I’m running Fluxbox on my laptop :)

@pocoO: That works too. I use cvs for the same sort of thing for many of my documents but it does require a structured approach of sorts. I can’t tell you how many times I screwed myself over because I forgot to check in the files I worked on before I left home.

With dropbox you don’t have to do anything. As soon as a file in the designated folder changes, it starts pushing out the updates to all the computers automatically. It just happens and you can forget it’s there until you need it. :)

well, ill try dropbox….but for now Im more or less workin with git to sinc my data…between 4 computers; i created a directory: “mkdir sincdata” in my server (linux with sshd in port 44) and i create a git repo: git init….then i put some files there….then i can clone like this: git clone ssh://user@mydomain.com:44/~/sincdata ….and my repo is cloned in every computer i want and i can git pull…and git push data from every computer.

its working for me.

It’s also worth noting that if you’re running 64-bit linux you should probably get the x64 binary from http://www.getdropbox.com/download?plat=lnx.x86_64

@jambarama: Nice! Still, dropbox is a bit sleeker than that and works on windows and linux alike. I tried like 50 different methods of syncing commonly used files between my desktop, laptop and work computer and this is by far the simplest, and most straightforward way. And it’s really fast too. So I like it. :)

@feeshy: Well, you will probably hate me but I also run Ratpoison on an old laptop. And IceWM on another. :P

I just personally prefer KDE – I used Gnome before and it always seemed awkward. Even the new shiny gnome in Hardy seems a bit funny to me.

This is what linux is all about – choice! I would not have it any other way.

As for “commercial applications” all they need to do is to distribute statically linked binaries. For example see the generic Linux version of Firefox you can download from Mozilla’s webpage. It has no dependencies at all. Granted, DropBox could not really ship it’s own version of Nautilus but other applications can easily do this.