Ubuntu One is your personal cloud, allowing you to store essential stuff away from your computer. Ubuntu One automatically synchronises your files with all of your computers.

There is work being done on a KDE client, but progress seems to have stalled on that development. That is why you still have to use the gnome client there. Let me show you what I did to get Ubuntuone running. Well after updating to Lucid Lynx Beta1 Ubuntu One stopped to function. It took me quite some time to figure it out. Here is what I did.

1. In the file /usr/share/dbus-1/services/org.gnome.keyring.service I changed the gnome keyring to freedesktop.

[D-BUS Service]
#Name=org.gnome.keyring
Name=org.freedesktop.secrets

 

2. Change line 304 in /usr/bin/ubuntuone-preferences

gtk.MODAL -> gtk.DIALOG_MODAL

 

3. Execute "u1sync --authorize" in the shell (this made my laptop authorize with Ubuntu One, which did not function through the interface of the preferences)

 

You can check progress of synchrinisation like this: tail -f /home/ben/.cache/ubuntuone/log/syncdaemon.log

Now lets hope there will be a proper KDE client soon that runs out of the box ;-)


UPDATE: After today's update Ubuntu One falied me again. Obviously something changed again. The file in step 1 is updated. I did not touch that again ;-) After running "dpkg-reconfigure -a" in the shell I was up and running again. HTH