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wowtah
Helpful | Level 6
8 years ago

Bring back the green 'synced' checkmark in the system tray.

In my Windows system tray (next to the clock), Dropbox used to show that it was fully synced by showing a green check-mark over the Dropbox icon. This was really helpfull.  If Dropbox was offline, ...
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Mailman
New member | Level 2
8 years ago

Yeah, I read the geek blurb after the fact, including the defenders here (company shills?) who claim it's not a bug.  Well, maybe from a coder's POV.  From a design POV and DB's users' POV, it's an incredibly poor decision to change a GUI semaphore from its traditional green check mark, easily spotted, to where we now must decide if the icon is "faded."

 

"Faded."

 

"Faded" now means not all our files are sync'd.  I'd lmao if it wasn't such a stupid decision.

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