Insync-dolphin does not work with Plasma 6

Bugs and issues Linux
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Hm, when I remove the icons, they are not displayed, so I keep them in the installation.

I pushed a commit that removes the old files during install, so they should not bother anyone. Also fixed icon not being shown in Dolphin’s preferences.

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Eh, that is a bit embarrasing, but the last update actually removed one file that needed to be installed, so it did not work. I now uploaded a fix so the install should work.

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I also noted it was crashing when insync was not running or when it was starting and a file was rightclicked - I pushed a fix now.

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Hi Drew,

thanks for your work on this!

Tried to compile this on my Fedora 42 installation but since I have zero knowledge about programming and compiling I did not get it to work.

Can you provide a precompiled rpm version on your github page? Considering the time for reactions of the Insync ‘linux team’ I doubt we will see an official version anytime soon.

Thanks in advance
Martin

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Hello, I would rather not provide binaries, that sounds like a major headache. Probably you are missing some dependencies, what are the errors you are running into? Compilation instructions can be certainly be improved.

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Wait a saga this issue has been.

I am on KDE Plasma

  • Plasma 6.50
  • KDE Framework 6.19.0
  • QT Ver. 6.9.2

As of today, 2025-10-21, the issue with Dolphin’s .deb install still does not show the synced/syncing icon overlay atop of the file icons.

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You need to install from my github depository for the time being.

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Hmm, which one is your repository? Felagund? Kevin Burns?

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felagund. It is a fork of Kevin Brunse’s.

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Any news on this? Another month has gone…

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I am another KDE Plasma user who has been waiting a couple of years for this to be fixed… Bump

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Drew even made a pull request on Github…

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@mia Could you please ask your dev team to review and merge this Dolphin 6 support made by the community?

Thanks!

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Hello! Our engineers are reviewing the PR. Thank you for your patience.

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And? Did they succeed?

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Any progress here? Can the PR be merged so the KDE folks can use these features we paid for, please?

Thanks

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Nothing’s happening on Github… In 3 months it has been 2 years.

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Adding to the chorus of people here wondering when this issue will finally be solved. Late January 2026 and overlay icons still not working on Debian KDE with Plasma 6.

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So 2 years have gone since my original post. I really don’t get it. Felagund did all the work for you and even filed a change request.

According to the Singapore Business Register Insync has only a mere 5 employees. So probably that’s the problem. There is no ‘linux team’.

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