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Rather than have the KDE team develop a backend for a specific company's product, wouldn't it be better to also contribute to or support a FOSS replacement for Dropbox, and just offer Dropbox-specific compatibility?

Kinda like Twitter and Indenti.ca.

Idea updated with Tags

clintonthegeek wrote:Rather than have the KDE team develop a backend for a specific company's product, wouldn't it be better to also contribute to or support a FOSS replacement for Dropbox, and just offer Dropbox-specific compatibility?

Well, is there a FOSS replacement of Dropbox? I don't know any...

It would be great if DropBox was integrated in Dolphin/Konqueror/Folderviews/etc!

DropBox is really useful

I vote for kio-slave. That solution would be usable everywhere in kde... and the config in systemsettings (username/pass, buffers, reconnect tries yadayada).

The dropboxd daemon is closed source...

Ujjwol wrote:The dropboxd daemon is closed source...

Is that a problem? I mean... it would be better if it was open source, but I think that being closed source is not a problem.

Ujjwol wrote:The dropboxd daemon is closed source...

So?

So it would be better to focus on more open alternatives first, IMO.

There's already a request on Bugzilla for an S3 KIO-slave, and there's a Gnome-based client app for Dropbox. I'd love a KIO-slave for Dropbox, but a Pastebin backend would also be nice.

Does anyobdy know if there has been any progress on this already?

Hi! you can try this:

http://kdropbox.deuteros.es/

it's an unofficial project, and it's open source:

http://sourceforge.net/projects/kdropbox/