Can't get cloud storage to show up in Dolphin (Bazzite Desktop KDE)
I don't mind whether it's Dropbox, Google Drive or PCloud (I'd even settle for OneDrive at this point (but would kinda ruin the windows refugee vibe haha). Here are my failures:
Dropbox - Desktop client tells me my Dropbox is on unsupported storage and I have to move it. The user input box is blank (I think it should show where the drive is currently) and I can't put anything in it, nor click the "move" button - and I don't know where the package install put the Dropbox folder anyway.
Google Drive - Linked my google account and KDE added the drive, but access is denied - from my research this is a known thing at the Google end of things.
PCloud - Can't install the client without libfuse2t64 and I don't know what repo that is in or how to add that to bazzite.
I thought that the 1st issue might be related to the immutability of bazzite so made a Fedora KDE container, but I still don't know how to add repos to that and I can't add a different instance of Dolphin that way anyway (at least I don't think I can).
Help would be really appreciated.
(PS: If mods are shared with Reddit, I posted this Q in the reddit subforum but it immediately got deleted - I think because I signed up to Reddit just to get this help). Sorry if this has caused extra work for someone.
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OK I have finally solved some of this at least:
Dropbox ... remains unsolved.
Google Drive ... possibly could be solved ... this works under Gnome and on further research seems to be an issue with KDE dropping authentication, which has been a long-standing thing apparently. Some posts say that if you overwrite the KDE drive ID with the one used by Gnome you can force authentication to work and I can confirm that integration works just fine in Nautilus (in a Fedora VM within Bazzite). Giving up KDE for Gnome is a bridge too far for me, though I might try the drive ID spoofing trick at some stage.
PCloud ... SOLVED ... I had tried to install this using the instructions provided by PCloud and it failed out because the fuse file was missing, but using the Gear Lever app that is automatically installed with Bazzite Desktop it installed seamlessly ... winner winner chicken dinner!
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OK I have finally solved some of this at least:
Dropbox ... remains unsolved.
Google Drive ... possibly could be solved ... this works under Gnome and on further research seems to be an issue with KDE dropping authentication, which has been a long-standing thing apparently. Some posts say that if you overwrite the KDE drive ID with the one used by Gnome you can force authentication to work and I can confirm that integration works just fine in Nautilus (in a Fedora VM within Bazzite). Giving up KDE for Gnome is a bridge too far for me, though I might try the drive ID spoofing trick at some stage.
PCloud ... SOLVED ... I had tried to install this using the instructions provided by PCloud and it failed out because the fuse file was missing, but using the Gear Lever app that is automatically installed with Bazzite Desktop it installed seamlessly ... winner winner chicken dinner!
I am SO relieved that something works, because I LOVE the Bazzite Desktop KDE version and the 3 main games I want to play work really well (FFXIV, Baldur's Gate 3 and Two Point Museum). I was also impressed with the advanced functionality in OnlyOffice and that, despite being a user of some pretty obscure features in Office, everything just works there. Cloud file storage was an unexpected hurdle that I'm delighted to have now solved, enabling me to sever ties to Windows altogether now. Given the high price of Dropbox and that I bought a lifetime subscription to PCloud some years ago, this is also prompting me to make the switch to PCloud, which I had not done previously just because I was used to using Dropbox and it was easy. I'll still keep trying for Google Drive as I'm in a band that uses it to share files, but I can live with the web interface if I have to, so long as I have one integrated cloud storage service that works - and now I do!