How can I make dropbox display an icon in Gnome Shell?

Question

There's no icon of dropbox in the gnome-shell's tray (bottom-right corner). There's just text. I tried different icon themes but still it's missing. Here's a screenshot:

Answer 1

How did you install dropbox?

The following should work fine (including in gnome-shell):

sudo apt-get install nautilus-dropbox

When asked to install dropbox from the original location choose not to. After installation it will ask for your login details.
You can check the process with this command:

ps ax|grep dropbox

You can start it manually (from a terminal) with:

dropbox start