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wowtah
8 years agoHelpful | Level 6
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, it would show no overlay icon.
Recently (and according to Dropbox itsself) this has changed, the Dropbox icon now shows no overlay if it is fully synced, but to me, i constantly think my Dropbox is offline, instead of 'fully synced'.
So the idea is: please bring back the green 'fully synced' checkmark. Or -at least- make it an option to show it.
Please upvote this idea if you agree
- Gunars L.Explorer | Level 4
When using small taskbar icons on a smaller screen, it was already hard to distinguish between the green and blue tags without squinting. I much preferred the older, larger checkmarks.
Now the subtle shading difference between offline and synced and ready is even worse. Your users have many different kinds and sizes of displays. This is not readily distinguishable in all cases. The icons described in https://www.dropbox.com/help/desktop-web/sync-icons#desktop show a grey/black box with a white center. However, on my Win 7 display, the toolbar icon is white with a grey/black center. This small center of the box, only a few pixels really, changing from gray to black is extremely hard to see.
Seriously, buy a box of crayons for all your Flat UI designers and get a bit of color back in their lives :-)
- bertbarberNew member | Level 2
An email to let us know would have been nice too.
Pretty easy to do.
- bertbarberNew member | Level 2
And also my icon is white.
How's that going to look when faded?
- CSX321Helpful | Level 5
Just adding my agreement that the checkmark needs to return to the taskbar icon.
I've just now modified the icon resource in the exe to add it back myself on my machine!
- UsuallyConfusedHelpful | Level 6
CSX321 - Please give steps
- CSX321Helpful | Level 5
@UsuallyConfused - I'm a developer; this may be beyond the casual user.
1. Use a resource editor (I used Resource Hacker) to extract the appropriate icon resource from the old version. OR (this is what I did), extract the sync icon resource from the current version and edit it to change the sync symbols to checkmark symbols.
2. Replace icon resource 201 in dropbox.exe with the old (or edited) icon resource.
3. Save the new executable.
4. Profit?
- jmart550New member | Level 2
Please make an option!! Other systems' limitations shouldn't inhibit this.... "If we can't have it, then they all can't have it!" is what it seems like.
- Clayton H.New member | Level 2
From a business perspective- this is a minor disaster. I'm searching to figure out why it does this now and here it's the new norm.
I have 200 users and instructions for years telling them to wait for the green checkmark. Of all the features that would be useful, why change this - David M.294Helpful | Level 5
It would be best for the distinction between offline and synced to be clearer. It's dangerous having the offline status look so similar to the online, synced status.
Alternatively, change the offline status to have a circle with an "X" in it.
P.S. I appreciate that syncing shows a blue sync icon - at least I can see when I'm actively syncing, and refrain from opening the file prematurely on another computer :)
EDIT: It's February, four months later, and I'd still feel more comfortable if it was green. The grey offline is moderately distinguishable from the white synced, but I have still had a few occasions where it took a few minutes before I squinted at it and realized that it was offline :(
- SergeyffNew member | Level 2
очень плохо.
создать впечатление, что программа не в сети как и весь комп.
прошу вернуть прежние настройки работы.
очень неудобно.
кому это только в голову пришло?уберите его тогда совсем из трея... зачем он там сейчас нужен??
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