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 ... Didn't work from the included flatpak. Worked installed on Fedora 41 toolbox in a container and exported. Required libappindicator in the container. too. Then found Dropbox hasn't fully implemented selective sync on Linux. If you want to see a Dropbox folder in file manager you have to download and keep content sync'd else it doesn't appear at all.
Google Drive ... Works under Gnome files (Nautilus) in a VM. It's a long-standing KDE bug around authentication. Some posts say if you overwrite the KDE drive ID in config with the Gnome ID you can force authentication but this didn't work for me. Tried to load Nautilus in my Fedora container but couldn't get that to work either.
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 installing using the Gear Lever app included in Bazzite Desktop worked seamlessly ... winner winner chicken dinner! - though I have to restart the app manually when restarting Bazzite.
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OK I have finally solved some of this at least:
Dropbox ... Didn't work from the included flatpak. Worked installed on Fedora 41 toolbox in a container and exported. Required libappindicator in the container. too. Then found Dropbox hasn't fully implemented selective sync on Linux. If you want to see a Dropbox folder in file manager you have to download and keep content sync'd else it doesn't appear at all.
Google Drive ... Works under Gnome files (Nautilus) in a VM. It's a long-standing KDE bug around authentication. Some posts say if you overwrite the KDE drive ID in config with the Gnome ID you can force authentication but this didn't work for me. Tried to load Nautilus in my Fedora container but couldn't get that to work either.
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 installing using the Gear Lever app included in Bazzite Desktop worked seamlessly ... winner winner chicken dinner! - though I have to restart the app manually when restarting Bazzite.
SO relieved. I LOVE Bazzite KDE Desktop and the 3 main games I play work really well (FFXIV, Baldur's Gate 3 and Two Point Museum). I 'm impressed with OnlyOffice handling Excel files with some pretty obscure formulae. Cloud file storage was an unexpected hurdle that I'm delighted to have now solved, enabling me to sever ties to Windows. 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 before because I am lazy. 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!
If I could just get input-remapper to work on the forward and back buttons of my mouse!
hey @ru32day hope you don't mind the ping here as I'm also trying to get dropbox working. do you remember more specifically what you did to get the app indicator to work? I've successfully got the dropbox daemon/cli working in a fedora container (via distrobox), but even installing libappindicator it still doesn't show up in the tray. did you install the dropbox flatpak in the container, or the rpm file?