Temporary solution for the lack of dropbox icon in the system tray

[trintadosete]

I am trying to imagine a possible temporary solution for the problem of lack of dropbox icon in the system tray in Plasma 5 and would like to get some more ideas easy to implement before spending time actually programming.

My first thought was: develop a simple python GUI showing the status of dropbox using the command "dropbox status". Then, change the windows behaviour in such way to make it behave like a widget.

Does anybody have a better idea?

[trintadosete]

The code for the Python GUI would be something like this:

import subprocess
import Tkinter as tk

counter = 0 
def update(label):
  def up():
    label.config(text=str(subprocess.check_output(["dropbox", "status"])))
    label.after(1000, up)
  up()
 
root = tk.Tk()
root.title("Dropbox")
label = tk.Label(root,)
label.pack()
update(label)
root.mainloop()

[oshunluvr]

Sorry, but I dont know how to indent the code properly in the forum...

Highlight the code part and click the # formatting button.

[SteveRiley]

Or type a [code] tag at the beginning of the code section and a [/code] tag at the end. Leading spaces and carriage returns are honored as typed within a [code][/code] block.

I edited your post to include these tags.

[trintadosete]

Thank you all!