Dropbox is a great  utility for sharing, syncing and backing up files across multiple computers. A default (free) account gives you 2GB of storage, and because it's web-based it'll work on Windows, Mac, Linux and even the iPhone. But one element is missing for KDE users; a proper KDE-based solution. Here's how to remedy that.

The default installations for Linux all use the Gnome desktop's Nautilus file manager. While installing and running Nautilus in KDE is simple enough, why bother with another file manager -- especially as we already have two great ones in Konqueror and Dolphin?

Once you've created a Dropbox account, download the apppropriate Dropbox client:

•     Dropbox for Linux - 32-bit
  

•     Dropbox for Linux - 64-bit
  

In a terminal session, unpack the file with the command

tar xvf dropbox-lnx*.tar.gz

Then move the contents of the unpacked file to your root user folder:

mv .dropbox-dist ~/

You can now start Dropbox with the command

~/.dropbox-dist/dropbox &

If you want Dropbox to start automatically every time you boot, either manually add a link to KDE's Autostart folder ...

ln -s ~/.dropbox-dist/dropbox ~/.kde/Autostart/

... or do so graphically via the Settings / System Settings / Advanced / Autostart menu items.