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timb75
25 days agoNew member | Level 1
Dropbox app on Fedora KDE 41 stuck on "Connecting..."
I have just installed Dropbox on Fedora KDE 41 and logged in to my Dropbox account. I can put files in the Dropbox folder and they get uploaded. However, when I right click on the taskbar icon the to...
timb75
New member | Level 1
Your necessary requirements suggest it doesn't support KDE so just for testing I hve switched to Gnome. This is actually even worse because there is now no icon at all. The necessary requirement suggest it needs an extension called TopIcons which is incompatible with the latest Fedora/Gnome so cannot be installed. This is a mess quite frankly.
Other than that on Gnome and KDE I have all the other necessary requirements.
I am using the latest version of your Dropbox rpm package. No antivirus, firewall, VPN or proxy. As I said, the files sync okay, there is just no notification of what is going on and on KDE the menu just displays "Connecting..." even though it is obviously connected.
Walter
25 days agoDropbox Staff
Thanks for the additional information there timb75 - much appreciated.
Could you maybe send us a screenshot of what you get on your end so that we can have a visual too?
- timb7525 days agoNew member | Level 1
The screenshot of the menu would be exactly the same as one in this 3 year old topic I just found.
https://www.dropboxforum.com/discussions/101001014/solved-ubuntu-22-04-dropbox-is-always-connecting-/599988
And the "solution" in that topic (which isn't really a solution anyway) doesn't work. Looks like a 3 year old bug which, to be honest, makes me think that Linux support is half baked at best.
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