#21 2025-05-22 14:08:45

Jimbo_G

Member

From: France

Registered: 2017-05-12

Posts: 326

Re: Dropbox will no longer support systray icon from 2025/05/27

@manyroads thanks for that hint.

Anyway, this looks like an appropriate time to drop the built-in BunsenLabs Dropbox support. Even if we continue to ship the installer script in bunsen-utilities it can be there for advanced users only, and will almost certainly need editing before use.

To be honest I never really understood the reasoning behind the built-in support anyway, and there are alternatives; NextCloud etc., some of which are closer to the open source philosophy

johnraff

nullglob

From: Nagoya, Japan

Registered: 2015-09-09

Posts: 12,652

Website

Re: Dropbox will no longer support systray icon from 2025/05/27

^The Dropbox pipemenu was added to CrunchBang by Corenominal some years ago. When it first appeared, Dropbox was quite revolutionary. There were none of the present alternatives available and many people (self included) found it very useful. BunsenLabs inherited the code from CrunchBang, and we continued to maintain it.

Certainly, I doubt if we would consider writing a Dropbox installer from scratch right now, but once having done the work there was no need to throw it away while some BL users were still finding it helpful. Until now.

At this point, it doesn't seem justified to invest more coding time into maintaining a utility whose time has passed.

If anyone wants to write an installer for an implementation of NextCloud, that of course would be quite welcome...

---

...elevator in the Brain Hotel, broken down but just as well...
( a boring Japan blog (currently paused), now on Bluesky, there's also some GitStuff )

Introduction to the Bunsenlabs Boron Desktop

johnraff

nullglob

From: Nagoya, Japan

Registered: 2015-09-09

Posts: 12,652

Website

Re: Dropbox will no longer support systray icon from 2025/05/27

It's now May 31st and Dropbox 225.4.4896 is still behaving normally...

---

...elevator in the Brain Hotel, broken down but just as well...
( a boring Japan blog (currently paused), now on Bluesky, there's also some GitStuff )

Introduction to the Bunsenlabs Boron Desktop

eightysixed

Member

From: USA

Registered: 2024-11-24

Posts: 58

Re: Dropbox will no longer support systray icon from 2025/05/27

I really feel like Syncthing doesn't get enough love

MarkW

Member

Registered: 2024-11-03

Posts: 296

Re: Dropbox will no longer support systray icon from 2025/05/27

1) Switch from tint2 to xfce4-panel, and install xfce4-indicator-plugin. Since xfce4-panel will become default on BunsenLabs Carbon anyway, that might be the path of least resistance.

Rats, I've really liked Tint2.  Especially the theming options

johnraff

nullglob

From: Nagoya, Japan

Registered: 2015-09-09

Posts: 12,652

Website

Re: Dropbox will no longer support systray icon from 2025/05/27

It didn't happen right away, but Dropbox on my Boron machine updated to 226.4.5094 a couple of days ago, and the icon in tint2's system tray disappeared. Dropbox continues working though, and responds as usual to terminal commands.

I already have an instance of xfce4-panel running for launchers, so I added the systray plugin to that, and removed it from tint2 (you can't have more than one systray running). After a reboot, the Dropbox icon showed up in xfce4-panel's systray.

1) Switch from tint2 to xfce4-panel, and install xfce4-indicator-plugin. Since xfce4-panel will become default on BunsenLabs Carbon anyway, that might be the path of least resistance.

Rats, I've really liked Tint2.  Especially the theming options

Yes i like tint2 too because it looks nice and unobtrusive. If you don't mind the extra RAM load of running both of them, you could have your systray in a small instance of xfce4-panel, and tint2 for whatever else you were using it for.

Tint2 isn't getting any more upstream support as far as I can tell, so it won't be the default panel in BL Carbon, but it is still available in Debian Trixie.

---

...elevator in the Brain Hotel, broken down but just as well...
( a boring Japan blog (currently paused), now on Bluesky, there's also some GitStuff )

Introduction to the Bunsenlabs Boron Desktop

johnraff

nullglob

From: Nagoya, Japan

Registered: 2015-09-09

Posts: 12,652

Website

Re: Dropbox will no longer support systray icon from 2025/05/27

If you don't mind the extra RAM load of running both of them, you could have your systray in a small instance of xfce4-panel, and tint2 for whatever else you were using it for.

Proof of concept - a short desktop recording.
A small xfce4-panel is lying on top of tint2 doing just the system tray. Tweak the settings to your taste.
I couldn't find how to have the systray background transparent, so settled for the whole thing being semi-transparent until hovered over. It'll do.
https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/gd7o74ti … pcmoi&dl=0

---

...elevator in the Brain Hotel, broken down but just as well...
( a boring Japan blog (currently paused), now on Bluesky, there's also some GitStuff )

Introduction to the Bunsenlabs Boron Desktop

hhh

Gaucho

From: High in the Custerdome

Registered: 2015-09-17

Posts: 16,138

Website

Re: Dropbox will no longer support systray icon from 2025/05/27

^ And boom goes the dynamite. Nice.

---

I don't care what you do at home. Would you care to explain?

eightysixed

Member

From: USA

Registered: 2024-11-24

Posts: 58

Re: Dropbox will no longer support systray icon from 2025/05/27

Super cool