Dropbox is a great piece of software that allows you to sync files among multiple computers and also back up you files online.
If you already use Dropbox and Ubuntu like me, and have upgraded to version 10.04 you may have noticed that the colored icons that Dropbox ships with, don’t really match the new Ubuntu theme monochrome icons. But don’t worry, it can be easily fixed.
First thing you are going to need is the new experimental version of Dropbox.
For 32bit you can get it here: http://dl-web.dropbox.com/u/17/dropbox-lnx.x86-0.8.57.tar.gz
For 64bit go here: http://dl-web.dropbox.com/u/17/dropbox-lnx.x86_64-0.8.57.tar.gz
After downloading you need to stop Dropbox. To do this just open a terminal (Applications->Accessories->Terminal) type:
dropbox stop
and hit enter.
Then extract the contents of the files you’ve Downloaded directly into your home directory and start Dropbox. Again in a termina:
dropbox start
and enter.
Well done! Now you have the experimental version. We are almost done.
Now the icons, first you need to get the monochrome icons: Dark panel icons or Light panel Icons
Then just unpack the icon folder within the archive into .dropbox-dist to replace the icons folder there.
Then restart dropbox as shown above.
Now my looks like this.
Dropbox Monochrome Icon
Some times you may not see the new icons right away because of dropbox’s cache. Try restarting your computer. If this doesn’t help just repeat the steps to install the experimental version and it should work.
Hope you enjoy it!
To get Dropbox click here.
The original monochrome icons were posted here: http://forums.dropbox.com/topic.php?id=7818
