I could understand if they "rethought" how indicators work, but why make everyone jump through the hoop of installing an extension? (At least that is how it is on Arch and NixOS, Ubuntu may be different).
Other than this, I absolutely love Gnome, I feel 0 need to tweak (other than before mentioned), some nicer tiling would be nice thought ;) Also: Requiring an App Indicator seems a bit harsh on the more minimal DEs. Are there any apps that are like a window but with your indicators or something?
Yes, and the API isn't very complex so you could easily write your own indicator host if you wanted to anyway.
My workflow is: Upload/backup often, Download only manually to continue working on the thing from another machine.
When you use the SSH port 23 instead of 22 you can use the regular authorized_keys mechanism for authentication.
Also their client encryption feature was so slow as to make it unusable.
(This was on their Linux client)
Other options like OneDrive don't have such capability on Linux or are not available there at all. It's very hard to find a suitable alternative especially a European one.
Also, in one company where im the IT guy, ive been self hosting a Seafile instance for years without problems.
So there are plenty of alternatives out there.
I recently started using the Hetzner Storage Share: https://www.hetzner.com/storage/storage-share/
Basically, it's just managed Nextcloud (so you're not vendor locked and if you want you can just get a VPS and host Nextcloud directly too), works okay, pricing seems fine, though there is the occasional downtime when they do updates between the versions or need to do maintenance.
Overall, would recommend at least looking at it.
From the article. So presumably this doesn’t affect you
Should your setup need it, might be able to hack support through env vars. Innovation, everyone.
System tray has been with us since Windows 95
I use Linux and don't have a taskbar, a topbar, a sysbar, nor anything similar. I've never seen the need for one when I can manage my windows in other ways and have more screen real estate available. What does that have to do with syncing my files?
Doesn't change the feature was already there, with Win32 APIs to interact with it.
The uproar for little details like this, is why Linux Desktop is never going to make it on mainstream.
"The Dropbox app can also run in headless mode, once you meet the essential system requirements [64 bit, supported filesystem, Glibc 2.27+]. This runs without a graphical user interface. You can install the app, then control Dropbox using the Linux Command Line Interface (CLI)."
Moved to Nextcloud and never felt better.
I can see how people like a "dropbox" icon, especially Dropbox, as it makes them stand out but also I can see how it does not fit with the Gnome idea of consistency.
I used to be conditioned to using certain apps via their status icon as that was the only way to interact with them but as a long time user of Gnome I don't miss them now and use apps like syncthing-gtk via the app and notifications just fine. So for me, if I was a dropbox user, this would feel like a step backwards.
https://wiki.gnome.org/Initiatives(2f)StatusIconMigration(2f... https://wiki.gnome.org/Initiatives(2f)StatusIconMigration(2f...
butz•1h ago
Only Unity and KDE Plasma desktop environments are supported, others, e.g. GNOME, XFCE, MATE will require installing an extension or plugin.
eru•1h ago
(I normally use XMonad, and it's very far from a complete desktop environment. It's only a fairly minimal window manager.)
sakjur•56m ago
throwaway314155•43m ago
This was the reason I switched to KDE Plasma, which is excellent these days.
Longhanks•36m ago