Maybe I’m dumb (and I kinda am, as I’m new with Linux), but I can’t find any way to integrate Nextcloud with my file manager (Dolphin), just like it works on Windows, with “virtual” files, ability to download and delete files locally, keeping certain files on the PC etc.
I tried to enable virtual files via experimental options, but it is kinda limited. There is no icons overlay with sync status, there is no option to download or delete files locally, no context menu options and so on. You just see that files are there and that’s all.
Maybe I’m lacking something or need to activate these options somewhere? Or it is just not something Linux supports at all? That’s a big deal for me and will definitely keep me from moving to Linux completely.
Yeah, that’s probably why it’s still considered experimental and has to be enabled manually in the config file
As for the missing icons in Dolphin, you’ll probably need to install the nextcloud-client-dolphin package. However, this won’t add any Virtual Files features that are not yet available on Linux, it will just add overlay icons to the file and folder icons that indicate their sync status.
EDIT: nextcloud-client-dolphin is not just for the icons. It should also add the context menus.
I see that GitHub thread was started in 2021 and there is still no full implementation for these features. And even no approximate release date…
That’s too bad.
Maybe you happen to know if ownCloud has support for this, or it is just Linux issue and cannot be solved?
I edited my post. nextcloud-client-dolphin is not just for the icons. It should also add the context menus.
And while Virtual Files under Linux definitely has some drawbacks compared to the Windows implementation, deleting files locally should actually be possible, once you managed to enable the context menus.
I don’t know, but if they do, I doubt it’s in a better state than the Nextcloud implementation.
Well, it’s complicated, but yes, at a very high level you could say it’s a Linux issue in the sense that Linux doesn’t have a standard way of doing this built in, like Windows has with VFS. So ultimately the diversity of Linux is part of the “issue”, or at least it makes it harder to implement something like this consistently across different distros and desktop environments.
Oh, and by the way, immutable distros like Fedora Kinoite may behave differently than standard Fedora. So I’d say the best chance you have of getting at least the context menus to work with the current limited functionality is with the standard Fedora KDE spin, and the regular distro packages. If you’re using immutable distros and/or package formates like flatpaks, you’re adding another abstraction layer that will make it more difficult, or in some cases impossible, for even the current experimental integration to work properly.
Installed nextcloud-client-dolphin, no luck with menus and icons:(
However, I managed to get Nextcloud folder to show all files, and even open them. But I cannot see which are local and which are remote. Maybe it just downloaded all of them😅
Could be because you’re using Kinoite, an immutable spin of Fedora (see also my previous post), could be a bug in the current version of the Nextcloud client that only affects KDE Plasma, or something else, not sure…
I’m using the standard Fedora Workstation (GNOME) with the standard distribution packages, and the overlay icons and file manager context menus do work for me. I do not use Virtual Files though.
Ok, I guess I figured it out.
Nextcloud client integration with KDE Plasma 6 just doesn’t work for the moment for some reason.
There are a lot of similar issues online since release of Plasma 6 and looks like it’s not fixed yet.
Tried with Kubuntu on Plasma 5 - works perfectly with all files visible, downloadable and context menus.
